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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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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30+ Bookworm Memes For Readers Who Can’t Put Their Books Down
Once you leave school, it’s hard to remember what it was like to read for fun. You spend years and years being taught how to close read and analyze literature that you forget what it’s like to do it because you like it. It’s no help that so many of the most fun books published …
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Teen Gets Kicked Out of Cafe For Reading Without Buying Anything, Sparks Discussion About Diminishing Third Spaces
It’s not easy being a teenager. There are only so many places you can go, and most require buying something. When I was a teen, I spent a lot of time at the bookstore and the movie theater because those were some of the only places in the town square where you could hang out …
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15 Reading Memes For Readers Who Can’t Get Off Booktok and Need to Finish Their Book
Recently, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the fact that the YA romance novel Red White, And Royal Blue (which was recently adapted into a movie for Amazon Prime) was based on a real-person fanfiction about Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. It’s a thought that never leaves my mind, much like the fact …
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Cringey Posts About Books and Reading That Give Bibliophiles a Bad Name
As someone with a lifelong love of books and words, I maintain that almost anybody who self-defines as a ‘reader’ is usually a deeply annoying person. More often than not, they have a weird fixation with making introversion a defining personality trait, and they probably get into the dumbest arguments on Twitter. Oh, and don’t …
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Literary Memes for Insatiable Bookworms
One personal failing that I’m pretty ashamed about is that I don’t read enough books anymore. When I was a kid, I couldn’t go to sleep without poring over a few pages of whatever novel I was enjoying that week, and now I’m lucky if I finish a chapter of something over the course of …
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