Influencers And Reading || July 2021
If there's something that I've noticed recently, it has been the total resurgence in reading. It's interested me a lot- apparently so much that I felt like writing a blog post all about it. To give you a quick debrief of what's been happening online, the combination of influencers (such as Emma Chamberlain) and the readers/writers of TikTok (dubbed BookTok) have created a new narrative for the generation that reading for fun is actually cool and important. Now, if you know me, you know that I sadly struggle with the ideologies of gatekeeping (mostly from things that end up blowing up after I've been screaming about them to people for years, but that's beside the point). But, I'm trying my hardest to not be like that with this new resurgence in reading. Reading for myself, and lots of others is an escape. Reading for fun is also something that has turned into a lost art, and I think that the school systems a...
