Would you buy a book that was completely generated by AI? It’s getting tougher and tougher to know what’s generated by AI and what isn’t. Remember a world before all of this? You didn’t have to think about whether or not something was completely fake? I miss that world. Now you have to look at …
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Corporate employee leaves anonymous negative review of coworker’s book, coworker continually references ‘mystery reviewer’: ‘She’d gotten some really challenging feedback’
It is difficult for growth to happen without constructive criticism, but that doesn’t make that criticism any easier to take. When you put all your effort into something and manage to see it through, it is highly likely that the last thing you want to hear is a takedown of everything that was wrong with …
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27 Jane Austen Memes for Voracious Readers
One of the saddest things about Jane Austen is that she never got to see how important her books would become to the literary world. It definitely could’ve been worse: she could’ve been as unappreciated when she was alive as Emily Dickinson, who barely had a dozen poems published during her lifetime. Jane Austen was …
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25 Book Memes for Literature Lovers
For the past six months, I have taken an hour out of my day every day to read, and it has been wonderful. I’m not saying that this habit has turned me into a genius, but it has made my subway rides feel a little less mindless. You don’t have to be Benjamin Franklin, studying …
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35 Book Memes for Literary Types
It’s true that literature will set us free. We’re so used to being bogged down by the noise of the internet, endlessly scrolling and filling our minds with thousands of hot takes, opinions, and jokes from people we will never know. But turn to the gentle pages of a novel, and your mind will thank …
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25+ Book Memes for Fiction Lovers on the Right Side of BookTok
When did reading become a… trend? I don’t know why or how, but I’m kind of glad it did. Folks all over the internet are bonding over their favorite page-turners, and forming little online communities around the novels they love. People are buying Kindles at a breakneck pace and even getting accessories to trick them …
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Mom claims her middle child being born on the same day as an anticipated book release ruined their relationship: ‘I had to come on the one day she had other plans’
There are so many different causes of a fractured parent-child relationship. There are obvious ones like neglect or a general lack of affection. Parents can also regret having children, making innocent youths the objects of their resentment. Sometimes, the child’s juvenile delinquency turns what was once a close relationship with their parents into something riddled …
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‘It’s more consuming than reading’: Woman shares cozy aesthetic reading routine, is dragged and accused of overconsumption
If TikTok is good for one thing, it’s taking everyday activities and giving them ‘aesthetic’ rebrands. Think of all the kitchen restock videos that have cropped up lately, where a simple grocery store run turns into treating your fridge like you’re the office manager of a high-budget tech company. Or the aesthetic shower videos, where folks show off their museum-like body …
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A Shelf Full of Book Memes for Wholesome Bookworms and Local Librarians
Much like a meme, a book is a portal to another world. You can get lost for hours and hours in it, letting it expand your world one word at a time. The same is true of our meme lists. So it follows that a meme list about books is double magic and a surefire …
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Author criticizes reader for borrowing his book from the library: ‘It’s even better when you buy, not borrow, your copy’
I don’t think there are any institutions closer to universal goods than libraries. They provide a space for people of all ages to congregate for free and give them the resources necessary to better themselves. I spent so much of my time in high school and college in school libraries, and I was so much …
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