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Showing posts with label BookTok. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BookTok. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 November 2025

The rise of the hyper-niche book club

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From "sad girl autumn" to "cosy fantasy without war," readers are forming ultra-specific clubs that speak to identity, m...
Sunday, 3 August 2025

Emily Henry and the craft of commercial fiction

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It’s not just that Emily Henry writes bestsellers. It’s that she writes the kind of commercial fiction people want to reread, smart, emotion...
Monday, 14 July 2025

Why the Classics still cast a spell: reading backwards in the age of the algorithm

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Browse through the bookish corners of Instagram or TikTok, and you’ll encounter a familiar pattern: glossy covers, rapid emotional claims, a...
Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Is "Performative Reading" really so awkward?

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It’s the quietest rebellion of 2025: the reader with a paperback in a coffee shop, a hardcover in hand on the train, a thick novel laid gent...
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