A review by cadyly
I'd Rather Be Reading by Guinevere De La Mare

2.0

I'm glad I finally read this book. I'm pretty sure it was gifted to me, but a while back and I'm not sure from whom. The best part about it was the essays - I got some good quotable nuggets from them and enjoyed the author's story of her life journey to being a reader (not a writer!). The illustrations and images were okay. They just didn't quite land. Not funny enough, or cute enough, or artistic enough. These were like the images that were not selected for a Pinterest list about reading. The message throughout was that we should make more time for reading than scrolling on our phones, and that only reading classics and "literature" really counted, which I can agree with, but only to a point. The font choice used for some of the poems was difficult to read and while I appreciate the ombre pages, some of the text toward the bottom of the darker colored pages would be difficult for some people to read due to the lack of contrast, so it has some Accessibility issues (in addition to being very tiny font).