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Over the years I have slowly been sucked in to the hype machine. I'll get excited about the books in a specific year. I'll talk about 40+ books and how excited I am. Then the year flips and there's a new set of books and I've only read three of the previous batch.
The hype cycle continues, every year, and my past is littered with a field of forgotten anticipated reads. This has resulted in me being up on some high profile new releases, but missing out on all the other books I left behind due to hype fatigue and life piling up. My brain is just as weak as any other brain. We're all susceptible to advertising. ( Read more... )
The hype cycle continues, every year, and my past is littered with a field of forgotten anticipated reads. This has resulted in me being up on some high profile new releases, but missing out on all the other books I left behind due to hype fatigue and life piling up. My brain is just as weak as any other brain. We're all susceptible to advertising. ( Read more... )