Why do I love reading?
Because when people leave you behind books will still be there. Because when you’re tired of being yourself you can open a book and become someone else. Because it’s not just a book, it’s my home.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we’re reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for?
I literally have no self control when I’m reading books I’ll skip like 6 paragraphs and read the dialogue and then feel bad and go back and read the paragraphs it’s a vicious cycle
For once this is like one of those ‘genuine relateable’ posts that I am shocked by like I 100% did not know this was a thing people did, a thing 118,000 people did.
Bookphile Opines: Adults reading Young Adult Literature.
So, in lieu of the “adults shouldn’t read YA books” nonsense that’s been creeping up on booklr lately. I have one question for the people who hold that erroneous opinion.
What exactly makes an adult book?
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I believe that the main difference between a good adult book and a good YA book is that in the adult book they will write at a level that would be hard for a child to understand what is happening while YA books don’t do that. Otherwise, they are quite the same and I enjoy reading both.
I see what you’re saying, but I don’t agree with you. It’s kind of elitist and a little snobbish to be honest. Only because: plenty of adults won’t understand it either. What exactly is needed for a child to understand an adult novel? Education? Life experience? Like I’ve already said, the reading level of the general public is ninth grade. Sure, a kid won’t get most of the references in The Waste Land, but neither do most university level grads who spend entire semesters trying to decipher it. If it’s about certain experiences that come with growing up [divorce, getting married, etc.] again, plenty of adults may not be able to relate to that either.
And another thing, I may not have understood all the nuances of Huckleberry Finn when I was ten, but I did enjoy it quiet a lot and thought it was a hilarious and fun novel.
My hobbies include
- Thinking about books
- Reading books
- Talking about books
- Looking at books
Smelling books
Touching books
Buying books
Yelling at books
Hugging books
Crying over books
biggest book turn off: making all minor female characters “dumb cheerleader bitches” that your female protagonist can scoff at in order to show your readers that she’s awesome because she’s “not like other girls”
Books don’t necessarily cure sadness but they are dependable and consoling. They don’t zap away the problems in your life but they take you into another world where your problems become so much lighter. I really think I’d go mad without books.
Have you ever caught yourself while reading a book how you’re just gliding through the story, but it almost seems as if you’re not actually reading, but watching a movie. But you’re just staring at oddly arranged scribbles
books are so lovely, it’s 5 am and I’m amazed at how many books there are and how many lives have been changed because of books and it breaks my heart that there are people that don’t find the joy in reading
That’s one of the things books do. They help us talk. But they also give us something we all can talk about when we don’t want to talk about ourselves.

