you can and you must

the real cycle of living you chase fullness like it’s hiding in every paperback, every receipt the books pile up, half-read, half-loved, evidence of all the lives you almost lived the story isn’t in finishing, it’s in the stack, the marks in the margin, the sun on your arm as you promise yourself this one will be different it never is, and that’s how you know you’re alive

You just gon end up an horder with unfinished books

Stop reading tweets, buy yourself a book. Read 140 characters of book. Put the book on your nightstand. Buy yourself a book. Read 140 characters of the book…

This but utilizing your local libraries and bookstores 🫸🧠🫷

Noted.

get a library card. be free. forget to return your books.

Randomly read pp. 130-150 of the book when picking it up for the first time at the library/bookstore. Can't take your eyes off of it. It's an absolute banger. Take it home. Never read any other passage ever again.

your life will be determined more by the fragments you read than by whole texts. sip a little, but widely and you will turn yourself into a serendipity magnet

Sometimes you see a beat up scifi paperback. It's got a cool surreal artsy cover, the illustrator went nuts. But you get 1 chapter in and realize why nobody has heard of the author.

go on a walk to your local library 🙏

right bc someone really needs to convince me to finish “the idiot” by elif batuman. i only have 100 pgs left and i already bought the second book but i cant ughhh….

I just bought 3 new books today. Before I even saw this. I was feeling *kinda* guilty about it. Not now. NOT NOW 🥰🥰

Live life fully, buy yourself an audiobook. Listen to the book. Don’t finish it. Buy another audiobook. Go on a long walk. Listen at 3x speed at the park. Buy another audiobook. Listen to 2 audiobooks at the same time. Feel the breeze on your skin. Play the first chapter backwards. Buy another audiobook. first chapter. Go buy another audiobo

The fact that the books wait patiently and eagerly to be picked without lamenting makes me want to go out and buy another book today

Finish at least one of the books tho so you can feel alive and quantum leap a little further in life

Literally the adult version of collecting Pokémon cards Chase knowledge, hoard joy, repeat

Nažalost ja

(50 years later) Watch the joy on the face of the book fair volunteer when you pull up with 30 boxes of books to donate

Good advice

I’m living correctly

and it goes on and on and on✨️

You had me at buy another book

All my unread books were rainy day books. Unread books are a source of comfort and security. One of these days you'll be bored and in need of something different, and your unread books will be there for you.

Damn hilarious

Me 😭

@create_carefree @_SarahDelRey

my version of this is going to my local library’s quarterly $10 bag sale where you fill up a giant paper bag with books for $10 cash, so you get 20-30 books every few months and have to buy multiple book shelves and then literally never read any of them ever 😭

@mezcalin0 @achillesboobs