Your essay reminds me of a quote from Eudora Welty: “I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.”
I am in the unfortunate position of being someone who loves YA and the classics and genre fiction favorites from decades ago. Whom may I look down on? 🥲
i like how we both wrote posts today telling people to pokemon go to the library
Your essay reminds me of a quote from Eudora Welty: “I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.”
Favourite read of the week!
haha thank you!
Death to Protestant Nonsense(TM)!
those mfs have a LOT to answer for
I am in the unfortunate position of being someone who loves YA and the classics and genre fiction favorites from decades ago. Whom may I look down on? 🥲
Postapocalyptic sci fi is better and more thoughtful than cyberpunk, see my proof here:
https://gazeboist.substack.com/p/post-apocalypse-against-perpetual
/sarc