So apprently I’m quite hung up on these READ posters
But I’ve just now realized that all the READ posters I’ve ever seen are of someone famous holding—not READING—a book. Do these people even know how to read? Really? It’s sick. Reading is not a band-waggon activity, people! Kids shouldn’t be tricked into reading because it’s the “cool” thing to do (even though it is, like, totally cool).
I just went through a whole bunch of these posters on the ALA website, and the ONLY one in which the celebrities actually look like they’re reading a book in the one of Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. But this poster is even worse than the “let’s-hold-a-book-and-tell-kids-to-read-even-though-I’m-not-really-sure-what-reading-is” posters because Stewart and Pattinson are reading Twilight. And I don’t want my kids (that will one day exist in the real world and not just in my mind) being persuaded to read such … I don’t even know what to call it. They could have at least been reading a good vampire novel. Sheesh.
But I digress. I suppose the point I’m trying to make, but not really succeeding at, is that these posters would be much more effective if the celebrities actually looked interested in the concept they are trying to promote: reading. As it stands now, I look at these posters and think “Oh Orlando, you’re so dreamy. What’s that you’ve got there? A book, you say? Well, you don’t seem very interested in it anyway, so why don’t we just set it down over there and, well, get to know each other a little bit better. ;-)” And you know what?—the thought of reading goes right out of my mind.
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Honestly, I have no idea what I’m talking about above. I apologize. I’m a little bit crazy this morning.
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