While wondering why more me don't read novels, Jemima Kelly (FT) makes this great point about reading fiction:
'In a hyper-capitalist culture optimised for skimming & distraction, the ability to sit still with a novel is both subversive & truly gratifying'!
Resist the onslaught of social media & technological disruption: read a novel!
I can buy into that (although of course I'm already reading loads as followers of my 'This week I'm mainly reading...' posts will know).
@ChrisMayLA6 This is such a good point! I remember at some point of my young adult life, I was often guided towards non-fiction for productivity and such. But pretty soon it sucked out all the joys I had regarding reading. I’m very glad/lucky I went back to reading fictions. It has made my life so much more happy and rich
@farah @ChrisMayLA6 it’s also not true that you have to read non-fiction to learn from reading! You learn very sophisticated things from reading from the point of view of someone else, and it changes how you deal with other people. I always find that people who don’t read fiction as a matter of course are missing something in their understanding of others, but they are incapable of seeing it.
