Week 7 Prompt Response

     This blog is my response to the article by Mackenzie Nichols, "How the New Celebrity Book Clubs Are Boosting Literary Sales". I would like to start by saying that I am a complete book worm. I am in favor of anything that will inspire an individual to pick up a book. I love the fact that library patrons are compelled to come in and ask if the library would be ordering a specific book, and if so, can they be put on a waiting list for it. It's fun to imagine what it would be like to be Maria Hummel, who went from "relatively unknown" (Nichols) to be a highly sought after novelist, simply from being recommended by a celebrity. 

    That being said, I do quite often stop and ask why this happens. Not that it is a bad thing, but, why does a movie star or athlete's opinion of a book  have so much of a leverage and influence of our thoughts? Does thinking of a celebrity relaxing with a book make them appear more "normal" than rich and famous? Do we feel we can better relate to them if we have similar reading interests? The "Why?" doesn't really matter, because the end result is that people are reading, listening, and downloading more books, which is really the goal of every author.