What if our desire for mindless paperbacks in the summer is in fact a kind of subconscious backlash to the summer reading that was forced on us as children?
As children, many of us were forced to consume books over school break; as adults, we can enjoy those assigned classics without the academic burdenMuch of summer reading comes from the idea that we become stupid in the summer. We’re on vacation and therefore must want a fat legal thriller or a novel that considers themes of shopping and sex. Beach books promise to entertain us and never send us to the dictionary.
But what if our desire for mindless paperbacks from June through August is in fact a kind of subconscious backlash to the summer reading that was forced on us as children?
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