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Always looking for some book recommendations - especially this year! hoping to read more and fill up my journal. Sometimes I think about how I used to journal all the time as an adolescent, creating little vignettes & prose, miniature stories. Perhaps it’s the day dreamer in me that loves it so much. But if you are kind enough, let me some recommendations or what’s on your #literaturelove radar! #whyweread #readingnook / Tap on the photo for links to jewelry & candles!
The Book I Never Got—and the Mission to Take the Guesswork Out of Reading
I never used to love reading. Not because I didn’t want to—but because no one ever helped me find the book that could’ve changed the way I felt about it.
As a kid, I struggled. Reading was hard. School was harder. And over time, I stopped trying. I figured books just weren’t for people like me.
But then something changed.
My daughter, Faith, grew up to love books more than anyone I’ve ever met. She once told me she’d be happy falling asleep on a pile of them—and she meant it.
When I asked her why, she said: “I remember the first book I ever loved. It was The Hunger Games.”
She could point to it. The book. The moment. The connection.
And that’s when it hit me: I never had that. No one ever handed me a book that felt like it was mine. That pulled me in. That made me want to keep going.
Faith gave that to me later in life. She helped me understand what I missed. And I realized I’m not the only one.
A lot of people never became readers— Because every time they gave it a shot, it let them down. Too slow. Too confusing. Not what they expected. So they stopped trying.
There’s too much risk in reading right now. And more than that—there’s too much effort.
In a world of instant everything—fast food, fast apps, fast entertainment—books ask you to slow down before you even know if it’s worth it. That’s the real barrier.
Picking up a book means investing time, attention, and hope. And if it lets you down halfway through, it feels like a waste. That’s why so many people stop reading. Or never start.
The barrier to entry is just too high—and books are losing the battle. That’s what we’re changing.
Just like Spotify reshaped how we find music, or Uber reimagined how we move— We’re here to rethink how people find the right book. The book they’ll actually want to finish.
We’re creating a way to take the guesswork—and the risk—out of picking that next book. So reading feels less like a gamble—and more like something you can trust.
Taking the guesswork out of picking that next book.
Because the book that changes how you feel about reading shouldn’t come down to luck.
someone does something upsetting and i don’t understand why for a very long time. i am upset and resentful at that person even though they have perhaps left my life. then, a year later or maybe two or five, i read a book in which a character makes very similar choices to theirs. i am that much closer to understanding. i likely never will fully, but there is so much gratification in being closer and within that being able to forgive. this is one of the many reasons why we read.
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The Architect's Apprentice By Elif Shafak What a beautiful beautiful beautiful book! Of the four books @duchessofcornwallsreadingroom chose for Winter reading, I've read three. This was the one that at first glance I was tbe least enthusiastic about. I thought it would be bored down with dates and facts ( involving math!) which I would have found tedious. But no, there's an elephant, that piqued my interest. Granted, I would have liked more elephant time in the book as I have a disdain for much of humanity. But this was a story full of love and humor along with such descriptive narrative that I become so completely absorbed in 16th century Istanbul that I could imagine the sights, sounds and scents of every street in the city. That is why we read! Also, the Plague was rather frequent. #thereadingroom #booklover #elifshafak #thearchitectsapprentice #whyweread #booksbooksbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CMhchddFnoz/?igshid=ir82eddmsdmv
Reposting from @lleibowitzz, from @center4fiction ... Why we read. #fiction #books #novels #sharedpain #whyweread #read #reading #justread #whatgreatartistsdo #dickens #dostoyevski #dostoyevsky #jamesbaldwin #jamesbaldwinquote #jamesbaldwinquotes @jamesbaldwinarchive https://www.instagram.com/p/B_9-8Y8JI1mTcg-8aTko5IHlLa_lGDQQnaqgTg0/?igshid=160nus9m57pn0
Rushdie’s analysis of revolutionary India includes a healthy dose of #classconsciousness , and gives us insight into our own historical moment #whyweread https://www.instagram.com/p/B-mx_iyA57d/?igshid=o4u73a3comid
