Ok, real quick, speaking as a librarian, you absolutely cannot despair about the adult literacy crisis and shame adults for reading fiction books you do not personally care for or think are "challenging" at the same time. It doesn't work with kids, and it doesn't work with adults.
Here's how to increase someone's reading level:
1) Let them read whatever they choose without shame or judgment. Maybe get them talking about it using open-ended, non-leading questions to encourage critical thinking and comprehension.
2) Let them get bored after a while and seek out different books.
3) Repeat.
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Not to be dramatic, but SVSSS ruined me. I will never be the same. It manages to be so profoundly heartbreaking but hysterical at the same time. This book is the definition of "crack treated seriously" and that's exactly what I needed.
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sorry for being a hater i want to be a lover but everything pisses me off
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Based off of that Sethos voice line about Alhaitham and Kaveh
He just got here and he already knows
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never in my life did I think that toilet doors would make me so angry
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nobuddy feels like they have a sharp attention span these days, right? and we all just click “agree on terms of service” because its hard to love yourself sometimes, well
enter Terms of Service, Didn’t Read: a website and a browser addon that streamlines the terms of service of many popular web services to be read by the tech sunday drivers.
It’s graded from A (great) to E (awful) and if you have the addon you have access to the info about the website on your bar
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genuinely the funniest thing ive seen on reddit
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that horse drawing meme but its falin
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can I get a job as an editor but the only thing I do is correct when someone uses the word "prone" when they mean "supine"
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my life hasnt known peace ever since someone said people with adhd talk like doctor doofenshmirtz. because its true. sometimes i go on like 5 non sequiturs and im like do i sound like doofenschmirtz rn
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It pisses me the fuck off that yoga is actually ancient and really good for you. Part of me still feels like it was invented to extract wealth from white socal moms.
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I was typing an entire post about food issues and why I don't like wet food, until I remembered that unlike in Dutch, 'wet food' has a specific meaning in English. Just straight up deleted everything bc all I could see myself as was
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