Garner paints scenes with sharp observational detail, sunlight catching on chipped teacups, the quiet despair in a suburban living room. Lipa delivers lyric hooks that lodge themselves in your bloodstream. They're instant and irresistible. Both are storytellers.
Instagram is full of annotated pages, complete with underlines, post-its, and impassioned scribbles. On TikTok, readers film themselves reacting in real time, pen in hand. Even published authors are weighing in, sharing how marginal notes shaped their early reading lives.