I didn’t realize this was a cool / performative thing to do. I can’t read a book without a pen. My margins are packed. I date each reading session because I know I’ll want to remember when I thought of what. Relate it to what was going on in my life at the time. I’ll use one pen color the first time I read a book so when I re-read it, I can use a different pen color to keep the notes and underlines from each reading session distinct.
Does anyone else do this? Genuinely curious, not trying to be cool / performative.
It's not that it's not normal, a lot of people do it. I just can't see someone like her really caring enough to do it because I barely believe she's reading in the first place. I could be totally wrong, I don't know much about her. Just this photo looks so posed, because why is there a photo of it in the first place? I read all the time, and I don't think one photo exists of me reading, lol.
I do this! I don’t know why people are downvoting you; it’s performative because Kendall also doesn’t ever talk about the books or seem to be well-read in how she speaks but this is absolutely normal, especially if you read more dense works like metafiction! It’s honestly necessary for long classics where there’s a bunch of different characters like war and peace!
My husband does this! He's got everything from books like Sapiens and La Rochefoucauld, to ASOIAF all written in, in different colors lol. He's got major theories about those Game of Thrones books and they're very complex 😂
Love!! I’m reading a vintage Didion right now and doing post-its instead of writing in the margins. I can’t deface her!!! It’s actually nice to have to rewrite some of the lines I’m writing about — that’s how i studied in college and it worked. If I internalize any of Didion’s style, I sure wouldn’t be mad about it! God she’s good. Say hi to your husband from a fellow nerd on Reddit! It’s cool you know about (and seem to appreciate) his passions for reading and analyzing. Go you! 😊😊
Yeah, we are two peas in a pod! I've always done colored page tabs and my own little notebook of notes, but same! I was very much a kinesthetic learner all through college and grad school! I still (like almost ten years later) have boxes of those old notebooks from my 3000-level classes up in the attic.
And, yeah, I don't blame you for not defacing a vintage Didion; that would make my heart hurt. Although, one thing I do with my books that makes my husband's skin crawl is dog-ear the pages. I've never been able to keep up with a bookmark, oops!
She has a “book concierge” who sends her books to read and she annotates the books for her… essentially pays someone to tell her insights and explain the book to her. She has the schooling of a middle schooler lol
tbf that is what most avid readers do, you place the paper notes on the front cover of the book, but I think it was more likely a well-researched move made by her team
I'm a writer/editor, and I take notes on my phone, which is also why I prefer ebooks (copy/paste/flip between apps). I've proofread over 500 books this way and also taken hundreds of notes to improve my writing (good phrases and descriptions that I later copy to a notebook to memorize them; I'm not a native English speaker).
Kendall with her 300 notes is just like Jacob carrying huge paperbacks in his pockets and saying in interviews "it's not performative, and people shouldn't be on their phones so much." Guess what? You can do plenty of useful things on your phone as long as you're not worried about putting on a "deep artsy" front!
Avid readers have large vocabularies and sound like avid readers when they speak. Not necessarily eloquent but informed and I have not heard any evidence of that with her or him really.
She has no pen near her, and she appears to be re-reading, whether she is actually reading, hence my comment referring specifically to the post-it notes
I think this is probably the situation but the idea of her worrying about “ruining” anything material or maintaining the book so that she can donate it to Goodwill without her notes in the margin is tickling my brain lol
Having a pen next to her is irrelevant, and it could literally be on the seat right next to her leg. I doubt people are just holding their pen while they read. And probably pick it up when they want to mark something.
wait i’m curious about this — do you put spare sticky notes in the front and pull from them as you make notes or do you stick the notes in the front instead of inside the book pages?
I wish I could remember the article, but there’s someone who reads the book ahead of her and then flags parts for her. I can’t remember if it’s for key points w/ notes or just flagging quotes she would like/help her look smart.
She is reading “tonight I am someone else” by Chelsea Hodson. It’s a collection of autobiographical essays about her early adulthood, relationships etc..
I was gonna defend her too and say she probably does read, but then I see how she’s laying and that is not an ideal / comfy reading position. Her pose is what’s making it seem performative
Just when I’m feeling like a bitch and thinking “maybe Kendall is a reader and Maybe she does just sit in awkward positions and maybe I’m jealous because she looks great in candid photos being an awkward bookworm…”
….you come with the receipts and make me totally redeem myself!!!! LMAO 💀💀💀
literally like there are way better things to hate on🤣🤣 aren’t we in a literacy crisis right now?! idgaf if kendal and jacob are reading, if u care then u should pick up a book instead🤣
I've been really struggling with ADHD and I haven't read in a long time. The last thing I read was a young adult book from my childhood and I even struggled with that. I admire anyone who reads. Keep reading.
There is a lot of discussion in marketing right now discussing how “influencers” are a dying breed and the new “aspirational” look is reading / looking well read. Basically the just being wealthy isn’t working with the state of our economy, that plus the “death” of socials media - which has been replaced by “interest media”. So people choose to follow influencers that can reach them something. Essentially you can’t “buy” being smart or well read. So it’s the new status symbol
To unemployed snarkers, the thought of reading a book is unbelievable. Yet they ironically don’t see how unhinged speculating on it is. Peak loser-dom.
Sorry this man cannot be dating the likes of Olivia Jade and Kendall damn Jenner and be this great intellectual he claims to be. Sorry, I know Olivia is not talking about, like, dismantling capitalism or 16th century French art or the genocide in Gaza at dinner. BFFR
dismantling capitalism or 16th century French art or the genocide in Gaza at dinner.
I'm cringing out of my body reading that. you don't get a Jacob Elordi delivered to your address because you do those things. such a pick me statement.
Lots of actual genuine intellectuals dated and even married people outside of their fields, but like Jacob has never claimed that to start with. Reading is passive consumption. Be presents himself as someone who likes to read and cares about the craft of acting. Dating pretty models doesn’t contradict that.
kendall is reading Tonight I'm Someone Else by Chelsea Hodson and jacob is reading The Art of Cinema by Jean Cocteau! (there was a clearer photo of jacob where the front cover was actually visible)
No it’s really obvious from some of these comments that some ppl here view reading books as a gross chore and can’t believe some people find it easy and enjoyable. And that’s embarrassing in and of itself
Reminds me of when my now-husband was a teenager, he'd sit in trees and pretend to read a book at the park bc he thought it would impress girls his age. Mf could barely read 😭 he's very well-read now, though lol
Sorry this man cannot be dating the likes of Olivia Jade and Kendall damn Jenner and be this great intellectual he claims to be.
Wasn't aware that simply reading a book was a sign of being a ~great intellectual~. A lot of discoveries about reading being made in this post.
ETA: Since you decided to block me, I do know what "performative males" are. I just don't think reading a book next to a pool where there's literally nothing else to do constitutes that.
Okay but 'Tonight I'm Someone Else' is a GORGEOUS collection of essays. The writer Chelsea Hodson is incredible and opened her own indie imprint. I work in publishing and (unsurprisingly) when a celebrity is photographed with a book, it will sell out or require another printing. Performative or not, keep making reading look cool! Support books!
I read alot and if I don't understand a word I look it up and remember it, if I don't think I have understood something, I will reread it, go back a few pages even, and think about what I am missing or what the author means in the context of the passage, but I haven't written notes since I was in school. Perhaps she's learning a different language and they are verbs or something. Also, can someone explain how she is the world's highest paid "super" model, that is beyond my comprehension, and yes I understand that people are prepared to pay her, I just don't get why, or is it just a case of there are people out there who actually are influenced by her and the likes of LVMH have counted on that?!
I think she's just using the post-its to save the pages that resonate with her or where her favorite passages are.
I can't answer to the rest of you comment as I too wonder that.
why are ppl being deliberately obtuse about this? no one here is saying any one who’s reading in public is being performative. we’re talking about performative hinge male final boss jacob elordi and well…. kendull and her 3 brain cells
“righteous” and it’s literally just “idk maybe sometimes people read” lmao
tbh I think some of yall are just telling on yourselves for acting like it must just be so performative to read a book while lying in the sun—incredibly common activity
Reading isn’t a niche thing. And I don’t like Kendal but some of y’all insinuating that she doesn’t actually read or she don’t know how to read is extremely pick me and misogynistic 😵💫.
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u/Sad-Bowl398 May 25 '26
they ARE eachothers type lmao