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Fuck the classics, unless that's what you ACTUALLY want to read. Read erotic novels, books only written by Real Housewives or just the paper. Just read, your aging brain will thank you.
Jan 10, 2025
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📖I think a lot of people can find reading really intimidating because they feel they have to read the literary greats (which can be linguistically inaccessible), and while I believe those have tremendous value I also think they aren’t requirements. If you want to read exclusively romance, or YA fantasy, or murder mysteries, go for it. I think when we put parameters on what should or shouldn’t be read we make it feel like a chore or an assignment. But I think there is infinite value in your airport paperback as long as you are finding true enjoyment. Anyways this is basically a long winded way of saying, read what you want and don’t feel like you aren’t as good of a reader just because you aren’t reading Hemingway.
P.S. this is my professional opinion as a real life librarian
Jan 13, 2025
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🤠i usually find myself in reading ruts when i’m taking classes and being assigned books or when i’m trying to keep up with new releases and the “smart” books that are usually dense and long. i can usually get myself out of this rut by picking out a book that looks fun to me, like a book set on a beach or something I loved in middle school. I’m reading From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler right now and it’s just FUN!!! I also am very much not someone who feels like they have to finish a book. Life is too short. I think that helps!
Mar 29, 2024
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⭐sometimes your mind has to expand in a different direction. put down the russian literature. the didion. whatever it is you flash ppl with at the boutique coffee shop. pick up the Ice Planet Barbarians. the colleen hoover. i dare you
Jan 30, 2024
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😃It was great. I grew up in a huge social housing area, there used to be 10+ of us playing street games after school in the evenings. I played PC games on my Dell PC and fell in love with more and more music by downloading random songs on Limewire. By the time mp3 players came into my life, sites to convert YouTube videos into mp3 became my most visited. I watched Sunday evening movies on tv that I had seen would be playing because I read the Tv Magazine earlier in the week. Me and my best friend would have competitions dancing on a dance mat she got for Christmas or sing karaoke on SingStar. By 2008 for £3 I could by 10 cigarettes for me and my friends. A great time to grow up.