Why Aren't You Reading?

by - Friday, May 07, 2021

*Warning: Profanity is Often Used Throughout This Piece*

Why are people so quick to run to Twitter when Instagram is down? Or when Facebook is stealing private information? Or when K-stans are taking over the world? 
Who cares when social media is being shitty because you can literally set your phone down and crack open a bomb book to keep you from contemplating whether or not the universe is harvesting an alternate reality and that's why we experience 
deja vu...out of pure boredom.

It’s funny the number of people who have told me they either hate reading or it’s just too boring for them and I’m like what the frick....like how could you not like reading?! 



When you’re reading you get to make up a movie in your head, cast whoever you want, you don’t have to pay up the ass for concessions, like it’s a dream come true! I am a dedicated reader. I find so much fricking joy from reading that it has become a top habit for me, right next to swiping a Cabernet Sauvignon right off the shelf the second I walk into any grocery store. But I can’t make people read. No matter how hard I try and how many books I’ve given out as gifts, people just don’t wanna read! Wake up world, reading is cool. So I’m bringing in some of my top recommendations for books in the hopes that it’ll bring a twinkle of magic to your book-less life and have you saying “I needs to get me a book".




Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me 

by Adrienne Brodeur 


If the title alone doesn’t swoop you in then what the hell is wrong with you? I read this book in two days, TWO DAYS!!! It was honestly thaaaaat good. This book follows a girl from her teenage years to adulthood, hiding a secret affair that her mother is having with a close family friend, boing. This essentially takes a hold of her life because she’s torn between doing the right thing and putting this cheating fiasco on blast or showing her mom that she really cares about her by helping her explore this relationship that is a ‘true love story’. The biggest pull-in about this book is the story is fricking TRUE. The author Adrienne Brodeur is the actual protagonist of this story, so while you’re reading all of these wtf moments you can be glad that you didn’t have to deal with the narcissistic mother that she had.



The Rules Do Not Apply 

by Ariel Levy


Okay I’m back with another memoir, but hear me out this story is also a ‘what the fuck how are people living these lives’ book. Ariel has the my dream job, she gets to travel the world writing about people and places and I’m just sitting here on my couch, eating fruit snacks, probably writing to no one... the joys of life. But sometimes when you build up to a frickin fantastic life,  your doom alarm goes off and the president of the universe says, "well I haven’t messed with such-n-such for a while so let me just dip into my bucket of crappy crap and sprinkle some of that upon this precious a-hole", and that’s exactly what happened to Ariel. I just love (not like I love that bad things happen to her) that she has so many ups and downs because it makes you realize that you aren’t the only one in the crap parade, but everyone’s got their own float too. 



Americanah 

by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie


If you don’t read any other book in the world except this one book then I will never tell you to read a book ever again (I made my white-privileged boyfriend read this book, that’s how you know I mean it). This books is hands down incredible. On the outside, this is a love story about two native Nigerians that are torn apart when one moves to America. But it’s so much more than that!!! As a black woman this books explains so much about what it’s like to be black in America and the struggles that we have dealt with, on continue to deal with, on the daily. I kid you not everything about this book is captivating and eye-opening. In the world that we’re living in now, where so many people are finally opening their eyes to the many constraints and obstacles that people of color experience, this book should be a requirement for EVERYONE to read. 



The Woman Destroyed 

by Simone De Beauvoir


I will admit that this book looks intimidating because it’s big....well..it’s actually not big at all, but because it's a book of three stories it's intimidating in the sense that you have to learn about multiple things in one sitting. The stories featured are set in France; France just intimidates me and I don’t really know why. But the book focuses on three different women in three different stages of life, a mother with an adult child, a mother who has lost her children in divorce, and an older mother who is going through the stages of divorce. Each story is so powerful and shows the mental battles that women go through when trying to uphold their role in the family. If you’re a mother like myself and it’s hard for you to find your voice within your role, read this book now. 



The In-Betweens: The Spiritualists, Mediums, and Legends 

of Camp Etna 

by Mira Ptacin 


Yeah okay, this book may sound super weird and ‘wooh-wooh witchy’ but it’s crazy interesting to learn about a religion that believes in ghosts but refers to them as spirits. I love me some horror movies, true crime, and Halloween, and even though this has absolutely nothing to do with that, I loved learning about how different spiritualists view the world and what they do to keep their faith alive. Mira is a journalist who conducts several interviews with members of Camp Etna (a center for a spiritualist retreat), she uncovers the reality of ghost hunting, takes a dabble in water witching, and learns the history of mediums and psychics. If you’re like me and you like to talk crap about Zach Baggins and wonder why people choose to watch the Long Island Medium, get you this book. 



Well there you have it, enough books to enforce that truly magical book love.

Just don't forget to thank me when you're maxing out your card at the nearest bookstore.




Bye Humans & Happy Reading.
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