But does this make me a book snob?
Rather annoying article which I feel is addressed to some kind of straw-person: How to Be a Book Snob.
Does this even follow: Sharing lists of obscure books you absolutely adore on social media is an excellent means to illustrate how much better you are as a reader and a human being.
Far from express[ing] [my] shock and outrage should any of [my] “friends” not have read and appreciated them all.
there is the perhaps rather pathetic hope that someone, somewhere, loves and appreciates them as I do and finds them worth discussing (o hai, trennels,
renaultx).
Plus, what even does it mean to
'take no action whatsoever to encourage other people to read.'
You know, apart from expressing one's enthusiasm about one's own reading? What is one supposed to do? Thrust books into the hands of random passers-by? Stand on the corner with a megaphone preaching the gospel of reading? Enquiring minds want to know how one encourages people to read by any means other than communicating how immensely pleasurable and rewarding one personally finds it?
This piece comes over as 'Loving bookz ur doin it RONG': not, I feel, a helpful message. This entry was originally posted at http://oursin.dreamwidth.org/2236535.html. Please comment there using OpenID. View
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