Not just from book fans, but pretty much fans of anything. I'm more selective with how frequently I interact or even what I share my opinion on these days, but fortunately, the older I get, the harder it is for me to be emotionally invested in online strangers' opinions about my opinion. And I say that not to be dismissive, but rather as someone who used to be very sensitive regarding this.

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Umm i honestly dont know. Google says you can use linen drapes. Apparently linen can filter out UV rays, but still let light in.

Hope that helped!

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This is hardly the first generation to be given assigned reading. That can't be the cause.

I totally agree. A lot of parents will tell their kids to read because it's good for them, but they don't do anything to actually facilitate it. And a lot of them are so hooked on phones themselves that they don't see it as a problem when their kids are hooked too.

I totally agree with your first point. Most parents aren't modeling reading. Everyone complains about kids being hooked on their phones, but that's not surprising when the adults are so hooked too. Parents can say "reading is good" all they want, but if they're not actually modeling it then it doesn't do much good.

I'm going to argue on the latter point, though. A lot of popular social media now is image and video based rather than text-based. Text that is there tends to be pretty short. I doubt the average teen today is reading much on their smartphone.

honestly pretty much all of the comments I’ve had on my posts have been well reasoned and without a trace of childishness or mutiny!! Obviously people have different opinions to mine but they never get personal in the comments! It may just be the communities I’m in but I’ve never been disgusted by a reddit comment I’ve seen on a post I’ve made :) but i do hear a lot about reddit being a cesspit hahaha

Being on Reddit exposed you to well-reasoning people? Reddit is a cesspit

I’m aware of that! But being on Reddit has exposed me to actual nice and well reasoning people so it was a shock to the system to be curb stomped lmao

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When my mom was a kid, my grandma took her to the library every week when she got books for herself, but she never took enough interest in what my mom was reading to notice that she got the same book every week for years and never actually read it. My mom grew up not reading and then read every book I read until I was in second grade, when I started to outpace what she could read while also managing work and family. I’m grateful every day that she instilled a love of reading in me! And now that my parents are empty nesters, I have the joy of picking out books for my mom as she’s finding time to read again. All this to say, your kid’s lucky too!

Four*

4 stars: if i had overall positive feelings about it.

3 stars: i has neutral feelings

2 stars: had overall negative feelings

Keep in mind that most high school students aren't taking on this kind of workload. I don't think it's a big factor here.

Try some of the "YA" type sci-fi like The Dragon and the Thief by Timothy Zahn or Redshirts by John Scalzi. Some of the older sci fi doesn't go into the psuedo science quite as much.

Literally sounds like a kid trying to act like a smart book worm lmao

That was just pathetic

5 stars - I will gush about this book to every person I know and several that I don’t until they either read it or swear they’ll never read it because I can’t shut up about it. I liked the ending. Maybe one or two of these a year, if I’m lucky.

4 stars - I liked it a lot. Good story, good writing, good pacing. I probably hated the ending but I’m not holding it against the book in its entirety.

3 stars - it was okay. It wasn’t a complete waste of time to read it but I’ll probably forget that I did until I review my reading list at the end of the year. And I hated the ending.

2 stars - bad story, bad writing, bad pacing, typos, ridiculous premises. I will roll my eyes every time I remember I read this book and will probably never touch anything from the author again. Goes without saying, I hated the fucking ending.

1 star - basically my DNF rating since they don’t have an option for that. So bad that I don’t care to confirm that I will hate the ending (although it’s definitely assumed)

I also only trust 2-4 star ratings from other people when I’m looking for a book. 1 & 5 star reviewers are too dramatic, hyperbolic, or fanatical to be taken seriously.

I’m currently finishing up the Three Body Problem trilogy and it’s been excellent sci fi wise. It has high concepts and gets very jargon-y, but Cixin Liu (and I suspect Ken Liu, his English translator) do a good job of ending all the science fiction hoo haa with a story and plot you can understand and follow easily. The dimension stuff is particularly insane.

However, my favourite sci fi will always be Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

Honestly I'm sure people wanna blame smartphones but having active shooter drills and seeing that your nana and papa did nothing about climate change, while realizing how fucked everything is might have something to do with it.