Growing up, I could usually be found with my head buried in a book...nothing has changed in the slightest—I recently got back from a weekend in Toronto and the highlights of the trip were visiting the Toronto Reference Library and picking up a copy of Sally Rooney's highly anticipated new novel, Intermezzo.
Despite ongoing attempts to underfund the public library system and ban books in schools across the country, reading remains a beloved pastime for so many Americans during these unprecedented times.
At the top of the year, bookshelf wealth emerged as the definitive trend of 2024, igniting online discourse about the optics of seeming well-read based on the intentionality of your curation.
What you're reading has become a bit of a performative spectacle, but we could be subscribed to worse status symbols.
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