going to the bookstore as an adult is so depressing. shelves and shelves of booktok romance called like ‘the eyeliner hypothesis’ alongside a billion terrible advice books called 'WHY your life SUCKS: Secrets of how Rich people stay Happy’. you go to the 'philosophy and history’ section to find twenty play-by-plays of WW2 battles and one christian devotional prayer book. the 'politics’ section is all biographies of trump. there are, being generous, about a dozen separate books worth printing in the whole store
