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THIS BOOK IS SO GOATED AND JLB IS A GENIUS. All I gotta say is, how do you even develop the skills to write something like this? I swear Jennifer was a writer, a criminologist, and a mathematician all in one for this book. Thatās how good it is. Youāll even learn new stuff from it, which, of course, applies to lots of books, but like, I absolutely LOVED this one.
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THIS BOOK IS SO GOATED AND JLB IS A GENIUS. All I gotta say is, how do you even develop the skills to write something like this? I swear Jennifer was a writer, a criminologist, and a mathematician all in one for this book. Thatās how good it is. Youāll even learn new stuff from it, which, of course, applies to lots of books, but like, I absolutely LOVED this one.
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Agatha Christie
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I think this maybe started when the performative male thing was going around, since the "performative male" in question always having some feminist book or work on him; and then possibly spurred itself into this "reading in public is performative" narrative (which I've now seen several posts of).
Reading in public is only seen as performative if you don't read, I think.
We've somehow reached a point where being seen doing something as basic as reading is a pretentious action.
To me it's just as basic as wearing headphones and listening to music in public, so why does reading have such a differing reaction?
I think it's a more subtle form of anti-intellectualism, trying to make it socially embarrassing to be seen doing things like reading.
Edit: added context.
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