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Old 02-11-2021, 04:11 PM   #30
hildea
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Like many others here, I'm somewhere in between. I read reviews and book discussions, including on Twitter. I enjoy recommending books, and when someone asks for something specific on the Reading Recommendations subforum, I'm happy if I can think of something that fits whatever they ask for. On the other hand, I very seldom write in the "Hey!! Let's get some action going! What are we reading?" thread (which is equivalent to #amreading on Twitter, I suppose), and I've only written in a book club thread once or twice. I don't write much about reading on social media (apart from here, which may or may not be a social medium, depending on your definitions). I have an ambition to write more reviews (on Goodreads + Storygraph), mostly because that's a nice thing to do for authors I like. I read (some) classics for fun. I think schools should help kids learn to enjoy reading, in addition to giving them some taste of literary history, and that enjoying reading is more important than familiarity with classics.

The article "We Have to Save Books from the Book People" annoyed me, so much that I probably was unfairly snarky to other posters in #15 - sorry about that! The article tries to create an artificial conflict between two imagined categories of readers, and describes one of those categories as harmful and deserving mockery. That really, really rubs me the wrong way.

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