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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20 Book Memes for Avid Readers
Not to be too much of a Doomer about it, but sometimes it feels like the pastime of reading books is something that will become a relic in the not-too-distant future. Those glowing screens that we carry around in our pockets make it a lot more difficult to pick up a book when they have …
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27 Shakespeare Memes Thee Shall Compare to a Summer’s Day
If you have been keeping up with entertainment news lately, you know that there were two different productions of Romeo and Juliet coming on the West End and Broadway this year. I know there are a lot of haters out there who think Romeo and Juliet is massively overdone and that there’s no reason to …
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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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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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27 Shakespeare Memes Thee Shall Compare to a Summer’s Day
If you have been keeping up with entertainment news lately, you know that there are two different productions of Romeo and Juliet coming to the West End and Broadway this year. I know there are a lot of haters out there who think Romeo and Juliet is massively overdone and that there’s no reason to …
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25+ of the Best Reading Memes of the Month (January 31, 2024)
The question of whether reading is an actual hobby has come up a lot in online discourse recently. There’s this idea floating around that reading in of itself doesn’t qualify as a hobby because it’s just another form of «media consumption.» Advocates of this theory claim that writing about books or analyzing literature counts as …
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‘Y’all see movies when reading?’: Book lovers discover aphantasia, realize not everyone reads the same
Reading is a beloved pastime. It connects us to the past, to our imaginations, and to our fellow man. It’s also just a great way to entertain yourself for a couple hours. But not apparently everyone experiences the same thing when they read. I personally see flashes of images and sound– not totally crystal clear, …
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