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 🤷
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,
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.
The subtle art of not giving a f*ck pisses me off every fucking time I see it. If you didn’t give a fuck, you would spell out fuck like an adult.
Have you even read it?
I have, and it was basically a curse-word ridden version of another book that was published around the same time. The “unfucked” version was better IMO, but I don’t remember what it was called. I guess gimmicks really do help a book succeed.
Maybe you’re thinking of “Let Them” by Mel Robbins? It’s newer but a more positive way to say the same thing.
I don’t think so. There was a book where the author looked at basically the same groups of people (stoics, buddhists, etc.) but it didn’t have the same buzzy title. I think I loaded both onto my Kindle from pdf so now I can’t find a reference to either. Oh well.
