Summary Of Snappy By Christina Nehring

Does reading books make you a boring person? Cristina Nehring’s snappy essay opens with a jab at a particular type of reader. I’ll admit, as someone who enthusiastically loves reading, I felt the cut of her initial comments like a knife, until I realized that her critique was pointed in a specific direction. Her grief falls with the “common” reader, those who read mindlessly, but possess the smugness of a scholar. I concur that ‘reading a lot’ has become synonymous with ‘very smart’, though it is definitely not always the case.
She makes other points I agree with, like that books are not “pure good”. She’s argues against putting books (and their readers) on a pedestal and conflating ‘any reading’ with ‘smart reading’. In other words, consuming