I feel like 90% of any bookstore I’ve been to has been self help (and/or loony new age stuff), biographies of / stuff written by politicians, and military “history” books.
Most of the rest are young adult novels and smut with some guy’s chest on the cover.
It’s because p much noone reads books just for the joy of it anymore. I don’t either, and i actually love reading, one of my biggest interests growing up, classic ‘binge about 500 pages in a week’ kid. It’s taken me 3 months to reread the first LOTR book, took me 3 weeks as a teen.
Brain not broke. Priorities changed, and it’s okay.
As someone who has always loved reading, books just aren’t something you can multitask. And before anyone says “stop multitasking; people don’t actually multitask as well as they think they do,” it really depends on what tasks you’re pairing together. I can pair audiobooks with driving, dishes, laundry, etc. and feel like I’ve not hurt either task one bit while gaining time back, so that’s how I consume most of my books.
I think there’s still something to gain by sitting down and devoting yourself to actually reading a book, but I think it’s okay to save that for the very rare book that’s special to you for whatever reason and take your time doing so. And yes, LOTR is one of those for me too.
I had the same problem until I started using the internet less. While I don’t quite read as much as I used to, It is way more than I did a few years ago,
I feel like 90% of any bookstore I’ve been to has been self help (and/or loony new age stuff), biographies of / stuff written by politicians, and military “history” books.
Most of the rest are young adult novels and smut with some guy’s chest on the cover.
They stock what sells. It says more about the general population than it does about a bookstore trying to make rent
It’s because p much noone reads books just for the joy of it anymore. I don’t either, and i actually love reading, one of my biggest interests growing up, classic ‘binge about 500 pages in a week’ kid. It’s taken me 3 months to reread the first LOTR book, took me 3 weeks as a teen.
Brain broke, what do 🤷
Brain not broke. Priorities changed, and it’s okay.
As someone who has always loved reading, books just aren’t something you can multitask. And before anyone says “stop multitasking; people don’t actually multitask as well as they think they do,” it really depends on what tasks you’re pairing together. I can pair audiobooks with driving, dishes, laundry, etc. and feel like I’ve not hurt either task one bit while gaining time back, so that’s how I consume most of my books.
I think there’s still something to gain by sitting down and devoting yourself to actually reading a book, but I think it’s okay to save that for the very rare book that’s special to you for whatever reason and take your time doing so. And yes, LOTR is one of those for me too.
I had the same problem until I started using the internet less. While I don’t quite read as much as I used to, It is way more than I did a few years ago,
And most of the young adult novels are “dark romance” or as we called it back in my days, rape fantasy
It’s okay as long as they are vampires/werewolves/pretty/rich. /S