It is sad isn’t it.

If she didn’t have any money she would be better off just saying so, rather than letting the child believe that books were not important enough to have more than one.

I actually tried to find them a few minutes later and give him the book because of the expression on his face when he looked at it. I wasn’t able to find though.

I’m reading an interesting book right now (review coming soon) that talks about how our body craves adrenalin and that we need more and more stimuli to reach that same adrenalin rush. It talks about how those video games, music, advertising, and more pump that adrenalin into our system at a much faster rate now.

Sadly, besides a shift in priorities, perhaps the amount of stimuli we get every day focusing on a book is much more difficult.

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More than that, though, is the general lack of interest in books by the current young generations. It seems young people, even college students my age, just don’t want to read. A perfect example is the girl I had come in with a 25 dollar gift card. What did she buy? Not books, not movies, not even music. She came into our bookstore–she was around 16–with her parents and proceeded to purchase $25 worth of LIP GLOSS. Lip gloss.. Her mom didn’t even think twice. We have a major problem that NO one seems to be addressing, no one seems to care about the fact people just don’t want to read at all anymore. The internet, music, movies, and video games have taken over, but what kind of children are we raising? Is there such a thing as imagination anymore?

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