Every Time I Go To A Book Store Im Sad I Cant Just Sit There And Read The Book - Tumblr Posts

This is why I read graphic novels… polotics but with nice art

If you can never read what people recomend to you, tell them that you’ll see what you can do about reading it. That way you have an escape if they ask how it’s going.

And if it’s an ongoing thing, I’d suggest saying “that’s not how I read/learn, sorry”

It’s not your fault that school fucked you over, or even that your own brain fucked you over and no one helped until it was too late.

But I do have one request, set aside a day to just exist in a library, look around in sections you might like, sections you don’t like (I went to a library and found the trashy romance section by accident, the amount of twilight stuff scared me so I ran back to my manga)

If something catches your eye, flip though it, you don’t even have to take it home with you, I usually end up reading next to the graphic novel shelf sitting on the floor after starting halfway to the end! Small exposure therapy with less reminders of capitalism (bookstores) can be nice :>

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]