>>54798056Shiori is really exciting for a /lit/ nerd because she has read a bunch of books that she genuinely enjoys and is passionate enough about the contents to gush about them. She picked them entirely because they interested her and her resonance with them is personal and emotional.
So much of /lit/ are pretentious college-poisoned fuckwits that treat reading as a job instead of a hobby, have no emotional connection to the content they consume whatsoever and just claim to have read whatever will make them sound smart and qualified to their peers. Genuine philistines. At best they can spew some meaningless lorem ipsum about the 'intellectual significant' of a book, at worst they just blithely parrot google reviews.
If you enjoy reading, meeting someone like Shiori is like taking your first big gasp of fresh air after months in a coal mine.
