how tiktok ruined reading + the "booktok book" formula

Lolita I think is a book that has been hugely misunderstood if you read Lolita and thought that it glamorized pedophilia you read the wrong book or at least you didn't understand it

for me books like Open Water by Caleb AUM nson have been galvanizing have been so important thinking about the black male body in modern culture

the secret history by donat is a criticism of elitism and intellectual snobbery and for some reason Tik Tok has kind of bastardized this and taken it as an aesthetic that promotes elitism

the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo is a book that was absolutely huge on book talk and the reason for that is that it has great pacing it's well written it's thrilling it has twists and turns it is emotional it's beautiful