Booktok Is Ruining Reading Novels & Stories

Challenged him. Why was she here? She found herself considering how to leave. Politely. He grinned. “What I mean is the life is different when the body, the book, is, what, a computer tablet? A teeny-tiny phone?” A long sigh. “Pages, real pages, have a hunger to them. A need that isn’t answered when you push a button or, well, whatever it is you do with a whatchamacallit.” “A Kindle.” “Right. A Kindle. Books are greedy to be read. They’re desperate. That electronic stuff?” He shrugged. “It doesn’t have the feel of the page. It can’t feast on your senses. Your hopes. Your dreams.” A pause as he watched her. “You see?”

And when she looked up, his eyes were already on hers. Julian's eyes were storm-gray. Hard, unyielding. But today, they were not completely blank. Today, they held a question. Do you read all of this store?" he asked, voice sharp but not unkind. "Not all of it," she replied softly. "But most of it. I like to know the stories I share." "Why?" She tilted her head a fraction to one side. "Because books can change people." Julian waved this away—barely any sound at all, more of a sigh. "People don't change."

Some were so gentle they passed as blessings. Others were so corrosive they hollowed out entire families. I didn’t even hear him enter the room. The book was yanked from my hands so suddenly that I blinked, stunned, my fingers still curled like they were holding it. I looked up, breath caught in my throat. Edric stood above me, the book clenched in one hand, his eyes dark and furious. “You shouldn’t be reading this,” he said, voice low, strained. “You have no idea what this book can do.”

Roydo shrank beneath the weight of his father’s fury, the Masters’ cold stares, and Tok’s malicious grin. Donton tried to intervene. "Your Majesty, let the boy explain fur-" "I don't want to hear anything else from him! This rat has given the worst insult to our kingdom and it's people! Imagine saying those vermin roamed the land before us! I should have your tongue for this!" "Your Majesty, don't blame him." A Master said. "It's the fault of the books he reads. His mind, being as deformed as his form, processes knowledge the wrong way. I propose he stops reading."

“I asked why you would read these kind of books for Amelia” I looked at the book in his hand, a book of myths and legends. I sighed what else could go wrong. “I shouldn't read that” “Why don't you read real books…” “She's a child” “Does that matter?” “We've been arguing a little too much lately” “Read her something better” “Dare me” Dare me??

Let me make one thing very fucking clear..I am not dumb. I know how to write a thesis. I know what a literary device is. I know the difference between Milton and Dante and how to properly quote Paradise Lost without sounding like a sophomore who just discovered metaphors. I did the reading. I did the extra credit. I literally begged that book to give me insight. So why the hell did I get a B+? Again? I stood there staring at my essay like it had personally betrayed me. My name looked smaller now. The title, too. Everything felt… pathetic. Like I had bled for this essay and Professor Wolfe just bled on it. With a fucking pen.

They light up. Actually light up. Like humor is bouncing around inside them. “Am I right?” I ask. “Or at least close?” He shakes his head slowly. “Not even remotely.” “Fine,” I say. “Educate me. What’s a book ban?” He sighs dramatically, but his eyes are still sparkling. “It’s when a responsible citizen decides to stop buying books for a while,” he explains, “because their bank account is begging for mercy.” “Oh,” I say slowly, glancing at the stack in his arms.

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Brea said and her twin Roxie rolled her eyes. "Another bullshit fiction our ancestors wrote she must have been a shitty writer that's why all her books are stored up in the library decaying, what else is in the book?" she asked, typing on her phone, flipping her hair she'd dyed purple over her shoulder. Brea arched a brow "A different language, I'm guessing their spells or something." This made me a bit uncomfortable. "I don't think we should read that." Everyone looked at me and I tensed up "Um, hello has no one watched that one horror movie, where the dumb cast reads a book they shouldn't and all die?" I said with my jaw slacked open.