Saw people getting upset at an article about "performative reading."

It was a screenshot.

No one was reading the article about performative reading

My husband doesn't know the story at all and I'm so curious to see how he reacts to part 2. 😂

I used to be so anxious about cold contacting authors about review copies.

These days I just post the kind of book I'm looking to review and wait. 😂😂😂

You just know their whole vibe around grief is toxic positivity.

Before this, it was still showing me ads for a compost thing I bought *a year ago.* 😂

I rarely shop online.

As someone in Special Ed, there's a distressing amount of people who don't understand or have the patience to explain social concepts to autists, so they just... don't.

I wish he'd had a trusted person to catch the unhealthy hyperfixation and at least *try* to help.

Every plantation owner had to work their asses off to keep humans enslaved. It took constant, active thought to keep an entire population of people from the freedom they were trying to get to.

They MADE "the times," not the other way around.

Thing is, the original author of that article doesn't think reading is a waste of time.

While they believe people are reading performatively, they believe it's still a good thing, because at least they're reading in a society where it's on a downward trend.

There are a couple different Internet challenges made to help it. I did a Zero TBR but there's also the "Read What You Own" challenge.

Not big on window shopping tbh.