Books are a cult phenomenon as they have never been before, it started with Harry Potter and continues with BookTok
I don’t suppose there has ever been a time when fat old idiots weren’t complaining about the young not reading. No doubt the Venerable Bede despaired at novices choosing cup and ball over the contemplation of vellum., after surveying more than 1.2 million pupils throughout Britain and Ireland, broke the news that there has been a 4.4 per cent decrease in the number of books read by children.
Kneecap: ‘Paul Mescal was flirting with us. He was wearing Adidas shorts, not GAA shorts. It’s all a farce’Aidan Gillen: ‘Acting is like you are living 20 lives. It’s a bit of an addiction’The State of the Nation’s Adult Reading report tells us that those aged between 16 and 24 find it difficult to locate books “featuring characters with experiences similar to their own”. Here I put on my old-bastard face. The publishing industry has always been too fusty and too middle class.
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