Today's modest library haul and a question:
As do most of you, I'm betting, I read a lot and enjoy engaging with ideas and the ways that stories/fiction can help us work through situations and emotions that are hard to get our heads around in real life. Books are a huge part of my life, and yet when I talk to most people, I rarely mention books/reading, and when I do, I feel almost embarrassed. I don't know why this is.
Does anyone else do this?
mcctrish I talk about what I read all the time. I‘m reading Cultish right now and it has a lot to say about multi-level marketing companies and brands like Peloton and how they use “cult speak” and I just need to talk about it. I‘m pretty sure people are used to me by now 🤣🤣🤣 2y
Aimeesue Depends on where I am. At work, people don't read, apparently, but I help run the book sale at my church, so I'm pretty well known as a reader there. And happily there are a lot of readers, so I'm always talking books or recommending to someone. (edited) 2y
ImperfectCJ @Aimeesue I guess this might be my issue, that I don't really have an IRL "reader" space. I should probably get in the habit of mentioning it to people I just meet so I can feel them out a bit. Who knows? They might be readers and are just waiting for an excuse to talk books. 2y
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ImperfectCJ @mcctrish That is an incredibly interesting concept! No wonder you always want to talk about it! That's a topic I'd have to tread carefully around, though, given the people I know. I used to bring up Timothy Snyder's The Road to Unfreedom all the time, but that's not a conversation that I find is usually welcome, either because people interpret it as political or because they find it boring. 2y
mcctrish Oh I might need to listen to that ( I love non-fiction on audio) and then share 🤣🤣 2y
ImperfectCJ @mcctrish The audio was great! I listened to it and also bought be the print book so I could underline and make notes (it's pretty dense). 2y
bthegood so glad you mentioned this - I work at a University so mentioning reading is not a negative although I tend to mention it in terms of texts, not for leisure - I am going to make a conscious effort to mention reading for leisure more often - #noapologiesforreading 😊 2y
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