Salman Rushdie out, Dan Brown in: why it’s time to detoxify our middle-class bookshelves | Gareth Rubin

R.Oughen up. It is the end of the line of soft middle -class authors. Leftist teacher Catherine Birparasing He announced that “”Parents and gentle motherhood“Average advice books for the middle class sabotage families by insisting that adults become friends with their children.

It is likely that you had a point-most mothers and fathers have seen a fortified eyebrow because one of the parents covered in the body has told Johnny a little that he was piercing another child in his face while playing in the sand “may not like them”-but I say that Birpols is not going enough. Why do you stop with the books of parenthood and motherhood? Why not the book Cabinet is an entire curse of the ideas of the middle class for lucky? The visions like President Mao have tried before – with mixed results, but this time we will do it correctly.

Let’s face the matter, as the mosquitoes in every home of Victory terrace with the extension of a side return that does not exist, it is present to be seen. You copied from Yuval Noah Huari‘s Sane It was eagerly absorbed until the second chapter; On the other hand, the hidden Jilly Coper is used in your bed cabinet, so that some of these pages are torn into bodies. Why contrast? The literary competitiveness is paralyzed from the middle class.

It is difficult to say why the books have ever become a show, instead of job items, although we are more likely to blame the monks who spent their years copying and beautifying the folders for more than there is no arrangement and the possibility of horn in Umberto Eco secrets. Thank you for the paid operations of that game. Until now, a local reform can be called.

The best way to clean the medium sebaceous book cabinet? First, there are low fruits. Any textbook on paternity and motherhood includes a kind cover image of a child for a child who is delighted along with Kabot, written by anyone who has a dual -cultivated title, directly in the recycling basket. It has already been previously recommended by the Instagram, quiet, ether or a member of the Green Party. Burn before reading. Protect yourself. Protect your family.

After that, we are on the imagination. The golden rule is: nothing in translation. If anyone who lives more than 12 nautical miles from the British coast, it will be outside. Also keep in mind, that anything described as “vital” or “necessary” by the newspaper critic should be seen in the deepest doubt. There is no book “vital” or “necessary”. Not one.

After getting rid of wrong errors, you will want to replace them with a kind of books that love Nigel Farage Read: Scout for childrenfor The dangerous book of childrenfor Annual boy 1948. Something about a loyal dog, perhaps.

If you are looking for a classic literary, Nicholas Nickelby It is a strong option in the family home, due to the filming of the Victorian education that will scare Bejeezus from any child; We hope to scare them in doing something in school other than Vaping and recording the violent drilling tiktoks. Dip in your descendants in these reliable works and will thank you one day.

At least, if you make these changes, there will be no danger from being “friends” with children; Anyone who hears the leadership will be able to bring out the value of this.

Reading, like the strange American phenomenon in spelling bees, often become divorced from its primary literary function and turned into a way to fall into a social place: leave the boxing for the working class, the Polo of Aristocrats, and the average population have novels from Salman Rushdie to be shown in the conversation. It is time to think about how to reset it.

Perhaps the answer is to make reading a special relationship as it was. Instead of displaying your books like Ernest Hemingway, some of the Rashdin appears, it was detonated to Kingdom, and closed them away to enjoy them, perhaps on candlelight.

Then we can drop all the claim. If you like the abstract Jack Reacher story, fill and proud Yer shoes. If you secretly want to knock on Dan Brown, then why not? Anyone judge you to do this is really jealous. Just think about how much the space you will get on your book shelf Da Vinci icon or Jack Rich: Earth’s killing When you give up the last bike in Sally Rooney.

Once the novels disappear, continue to check along the shelf and decide what you are already looking for. All of these are YOTAM OTTOLENGHI cooking that make you search for herbs manually designed from the slopes of the Judaism Mountains, when children are happier with chicken nuggets; The same is all that CVs in Nelson Mandela voice Really interesting but not opened before. If you do not use it or read it, it will be dropped.

Once we stop dealing with books as the effects of display and reverence, we can also stop treating their authors as prophets. Like football players who comment on international relations, the fact that someone has been handed over to Megavone does not really mean that they have the first idea of ​​what they cry. However, it seems that social norms weigh the middle -class parents to use external sources largely in raising their young to books. This is despite this fact that doing so transmits all moral instructions to Peppa Pig.

We can finish the positive news, though: this was revealed last week that many children Stop reading almost completely It is now preferable that the words are fed by a spoon by Audiobook. This will make it easier than hiding your middle -class peers that wander around the fact that they love Enid Blyton’s books.