The words “TikTok trend” never fails to make me hate everything absolutely all the time…
I have many bookshelves and books at home. It’s a collection I’ve built my entire adult life and deeply meaningful to me
When I was little, we were new immigrants, my parents couldn’t afford childcare so I went to the library after school until they got off of work and could get me. We couldn’t afford to buy books at all. I remember the yearning feeling of looking at those scholastic catalogs that were always distributed at school. I always read books in the library and rarely even borrowed them (after my English was good enough, my parents were afraid reading would overly distract me from STEM). I dreamed of having a library of my own someday, and I started as soon as I made any money of my own. I curate it very carefully, books I’ve outgrown, interests I’ve outgrown, things I think are beautiful, things I think are too sad.
I hope everyone enjoys reading as much as I do and has all the access to books that they want now and forever, but also that this as a “Tiktok trend” dies ASAP. Fedoras were not a douchebag hat until a lot of douchebags started wearing them to signal something.
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The words “TikTok trend” never fails to make me hate everything absolutely all the time…
I have many bookshelves and books at home. It’s a collection I’ve built my entire adult life and deeply meaningful to me
When I was little, we were new immigrants, my parents couldn’t afford childcare so I went to the library after school until they got off of work and could get me. We couldn’t afford to buy books at all. I remember the yearning feeling of looking at those scholastic catalogs that were always distributed at school. I always read books in the library and rarely even borrowed them (after my English was good enough, my parents were afraid reading would overly distract me from STEM). I dreamed of having a library of my own someday, and I started as soon as I made any money of my own. I curate it very carefully, books I’ve outgrown, interests I’ve outgrown, things I think are beautiful, things I think are too sad.
I hope everyone enjoys reading as much as I do and has all the access to books that they want now and forever, but also that this as a “Tiktok trend” dies ASAP. Fedoras were not a douchebag hat until a lot of douchebags started wearing them to signal something.