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If you want more people to read, read books yourself #TEDTalks
If you want to live in a world where people read, novelist Ann Patchett has news for you: it’s your job to help create that reality. Tracing her path from a chance airport encounter through a career writing iconic novels and opening a beloved independent bookstore, she makes the case that reading isn’t a private…
@CantTalkImRiding
July 26, 2026 at 1:06 pm
On dating apps I ask what people are reading. If they don’t read it’s a bit of a bummer. Doesn’t have to be nonfiction. Just read stuff.
@tatianazal
July 26, 2026 at 1:37 pm
My parents are both educated readers and encouraged us early, but out of all my siblings only I ended up a reader. So like 1/3 kids in same family. But I can’t say that my siblings are less smarter than me. My own family’s example leaves me rather disenchanted with reading. Society sees reading as this magical universally good habit, and it really isn’t. It’s just a way to process information, not much else.
@chasmenear7130
July 26, 2026 at 1:39 pm
The PRINTED word is unequaled in keeping the brain nimble…. second only to playing music. Read EVERYTHING. You might figure something out…!
@frenchgold
July 26, 2026 at 3:12 pm
Some books are not ment for children. They do not belong in elementary schools, some middle school books are poor decisions. This is not that same as cultivating readers that love reading.
@agoatinadress
July 26, 2026 at 3:28 pm
Only fascists ban books, Darlene.
@ajs1998
July 26, 2026 at 9:13 pm
Booooo
@walterkelly
July 26, 2026 at 3:17 pm
Says the lady on the YT short.
@Doadeoke
July 26, 2026 at 3:37 pm
Model your idealogy. A universal truth.
@eliaskulp306
July 26, 2026 at 8:48 pm
“Books are not the things endangering our children.” Incredible.