Virtue signalling

When Did Reading Become Performance?

April 30, 2025April 30, 2025

Reading isn’t a flex. Self-help isn’t a gateway drug to fiction. If you read to look good, I’m not impressed—and neither is Gabrielle Zevin.

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Xxfan on A Non-Medical View Of The Uterus: Blood, Babies & Hysteria: “I experience with hysterectomy made me more mature.my mom had to have a hysterectomy.this was my first experience handling everything…”
IdeaSmith on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “@Slogan Murugan: Indeed. Books were always fascinating but this year has been about the people and spaces around books as…”
IdeaSmith on Finding God In The Incompletion Of Love, Nature & City: “@Slogan Murugan: It’s good to have you be part of this blog again!”
Slogan Murugan on Finding God In The Incompletion Of Love, Nature & City: “🙂 🙂 Happy to see this 🙂”
Slogan Murugan on When Did Reading Become Performance?: “What a fascinating world you have discovered thanks to books!”
IdeaSmith on Falling Out Of Love With The Book (It Happened To Me): “@Lizzybeth1986: Thank you, my dear friend. I hope for all of that for you as well. It has been a…”
IdeaSmith on The Feels This Week: My Home In Photographs: “@Topher: I don’t feel that way about my city anymore. But I’m being reminded of new ways to make an…”
Topher on The Feels This Week: My Home In Photographs: “Beautiful.”
Lizzybeth1986 on Falling Out Of Love With The Book (It Happened To Me): “I sometimes wonder if this is what some called “book fatigue” – or, like you said, the dehabilitating effects of…”

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