9 Books That People Will Judge You For Reading

June 5, 2013 Subscribe · Forward 9 Books People Will Judge You For Reading Some people just can't help being judgmental. They roll their eyes when they see your shoes, your haircut... but worst of all can be when they see what you're reading. Here are 9 books that many people are uncomfortable reading in public -- and why the book shamers have got it all wrong. Continue reading... 24-Hour Read In To Support Libraries 2013 Women's Prize For Fiction Winner Announced 9 Things You Didn't Know About The Occult (NEW BOOK) 14 People Who Now Hate George RR Martin 10 Classics That Won't Put You To Sleep 13 Vintage Photos Of Famous Authors Writing 9 Books That People Will Judge You For Reading 9 Books That People Will Judge You For Reading 10 Classics That Won't Put You To Sleep BRYAN YOUNG Screenwriter Travis Beacham Talks Pacific Rim Next month sees the release of Guillermo Del Toro's new film Pacific Rim. It pits the world against Kaiju monsters rising up out of the sea and the heroes that fight them in their giant robots, known as Jaegers. Continue reading... RACHAEL BERKEY Read This? Drink That Give one of these three books a try and see if they spark your tastebuds the way that they spark mine. I'd be surprised if you're not at the supermarket by page 50. Continue reading... EVAN GOTTLIEB (Don't) Finish What You Started: In Defense of Not Reading Cover to Cover If after 50 pages I find my mind wandering to other things I could be doing, especially other books I could be reading, I usually tell myself it's alright to put this one aside. Continue reading... MICHEL CORMIER The Exile of Wang Juntao Wang Juntao is one of the best known Chinese dissidents. Considered by the Chinese government as one of the "black hands" behind the Tiananmen student movement, he was condemned to 13 years in prison, the most severe sentence imposed in the wake of the spring crisis of 1989 in Beijing. Continue reading... CELESTE NG Everything Has a Name (or, How Gardening Made Me a Better Writer) Recently I read an anecdote about Nabokov: a student asked if he had any talent, and Nabokov pointed to the window and asked him to identify the tree outside. When the student came up blank, Nabokov dismissed him: "You'll never be a writer." Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003