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Doomscrolling (and kids) destroyed my reading habit. Could the ‘Booker Challenge’ save it?

Doomscrolling (and kids) destroyed my reading habit. Could the ‘Booker Challenge’ save it?
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By Oscar Holland, CNN Novels are an endangered art form. In the early 1990s, more than 60% of American adults finished at least one book a year; today, fewer than half do. Gen Z often takes the heat for this decline, but we’re all to blame — including me, a time-poor millennial with two young kid...

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