Or at least according to a quick Google search...
Even though, "booktok" seems popular and in bookstores, you would see shelves titled "booktok books" or something similar.
But a lot of those popular books seem to be dirty romance novels.
I know that before booktok, there was also "booktube". (I didn't get into "booktube" until I went to college)
And as a librarian, I do notice that children and teens do read books or at least rent them.
Even though they are renting because of school reasons.
When I was younger, I do also remember that me and my classmates had to go to the library and rent a book.
I think I did enjoy reading back then or at least I liked some of the books, I read. Even though when I became a teenager, I wasn't that interested in YA books, because I found a lot of them to be too "dirty" (but some children's books also were kinda dirty, especially the Danish ones.)
And of course, in schools, children read. It is literally the place where most people learn how to read.
In language class, the teacher makes pupils read stuff that they have to read.
In schools they don't just read, they of course also have to analyze what the just read. Where it might be like "What is the short story about?" and "What genre is it?". I do think that it is a good thing to think about "what did we just read today?". But there have been times when I have had hard times analyzing stuff.
Some of the stuff that I had read for school felt kinda "dirty".
I have heard that schools can make reading books sound more boring or something.
I feel like schools can make a lot of stuff seem boring. When I was a teenager, geography sounded boring.
I don't think I was that much like that as a child.
I do remember reading picture books when I was a child.
And every night, I read some children's books.
Most of you know that I write fanfics and stuff. When I was 12 years old or something, I once was like "I want to become an author when I grow up". But I can't remember why exactly that I wanted to become an author, despite the fact that I was a bit of a storyteller when I was a child.
And I also wanted to become a librarian (but for a silly reason, which was "so that I can see the books I've written in my library")
Despite me having those dreams, I feel like that when I was a teen, I probably wrote more than I read.
And I have felt like "if I want to write books, I also have to read books".
Nowadays, I do read books and am a bit of a literature nerd.
Even though I think I spend more time in front of my computer and stuff than I spend time reading books. (there are times when I don't feel like reading much)
And I think when I was younger, I probably spent more time in front of TV and computer than I spent reading books.
Okay, this thread ended up being an essay.
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