{"id":725,"date":"2026-06-17T19:11:38","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/booksmaxxing-how-reading-became-sexy-books-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T19:11:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T19:11:38","slug":"booksmaxxing-how-reading-became-sexy-books-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/06\/17\/booksmaxxing-how-reading-became-sexy-books-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Booksmaxxing: how reading became sexy | Books | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This is beginning to sound a trifle insane. That\u2019s booksmaxxing!<\/p>\n<p>Isn\u2019t this all coming at a time when book reading is actually in decline? Overall, yes. Since 2003 the number of Americans reading for pleasure has dropped by 40%.<\/p>\n<p>So booksmaxxing is a niche trend cocooned within a much larger trend that\u2019s heading in the opposite direction? That\u2019s what makes it cool.<\/p>\n<p>Wrong \u2013 that\u2019s what makes it an entirely performative exercise aimed at convincing the world you are intelligent and possess an attention span. What\u2019s that? Sorry, I wasn\u2019t listening. *Performatively flicks page of book*<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/jun\/17\/booksmaxxing-how-reading-became-sexy\">www.theguardian.com\/books\/2026\/jun\/17\/booksmaxxing-how-reading-became-sexy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is beginning to sound a trifle insane. That\u2019s booksmaxxing! Isn\u2019t this all coming at a time when book reading is actually in decline? Overall, yes. Since 2003 the number of Americans reading for pleasure has dropped by 40%. So booksmaxxing is a niche trend cocooned within a much larger trend that\u2019s heading in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,3,36,77,38],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-books","tag-reading","tag-social-media","tag-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}