"You always have your head crammed in a book. Can't you just obsess over your social media status and text nonstop like the rest of us?"
"And be one of those self-absorbing, narcissistic and materialistic millennials? No, thank you. My social life needs no updating, much less broadcasted to the world only to have strangers to judge the way you look and what you do. Social life means talking to each other with words, not text and emojis. My social life is more than 4:5 ratio photo on Instagram. My story worth more than a minute on Instagram.
Books however, are just like music. You feel yourself transported into another realm led by well thought-out words which string into sentences and paragraphs. Shakespeare's works did not become literary jewel just to be impeded by a 280-word limit tweets. And who wouldn't like the feel and smell of a paperback brushing your fingers. It's a timeless feeling.
So yeah, I'd rather have my head crammed in a book instead of a smartphone. A smartphone isn't going to make me any smarter that other book couldn't. Besides, I have 339 book titles mentioned in Gilmore Girls to catch up on."