This is something I've seen a couple of times on Booktube, Bookstagram, and bookish blogs. I haven't seen this a whole lot, though, so I thought I'd give it a shot here on my blog.
You may think "How can a reader face pressure?" or "What are you talking about? There's no pressure to reading!" That is, safe to say, ignoring the bigger picture of reading, no matter the reason. Reading is something that is capable of touching both our personal and our social lives. There are personal pressures, and there are social pressures.
Here are 6 pressures that I personally have faced as a reader.
Pressure 1: I need to set a reading goal of 50+ books per year.
Pressure 2: I need to try to have an aesthetic bookish social media account that "stands up to" the aesthetics of other bookish social media accounts.
Pressure 3: I need to keep up with every new release, and that I'm not a "good reader" if I read backlisted books.
Pressure 4: I need to read from every single genre available.
Pressure 5: I need to only read from "my genre."
Pressure 6: I have to own physical copies of every single book I buy.
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