Under the bookfluence

Call me Influencer.

(just kidding, please don’t)

I don’t use TikTok but I’ve started making Instagram Reels for work and have grown to appreciate the format, however much of a time-suck it can be. There’s lots of creative, funny, and relatable ones out there if you can navigate the ever-changing algorithm.

I figured the easiest way in for me personally was to dash off a few of my strongly held (and correct) assertions about reading and books:

• Stop reading books you don’t like (inspired by my recent blog post)
• Daniel Pennac’s 10 “Rights of the Reader” (inspired by my not-so-recent post)
• Audiobooks are books (because they are)

Based on the responses I’ve gotten, if only from friends, they have clearly touched a nerve. There are lots of shame-based reading practices lurking out there, and I’ve now made it my mission to target and destroy them.

I will probably branch off from bookish takes at some point. (Lord knows I have thoughts on movies, libraries, and typewriters at least.) But like my M.O. with this blog, I’ll wait for inspiration to strike.