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Reading makes you look cool - slip on your reading glasses and dig out that Kerouac novel.
Reading glasses aren’t just about stopping you from getting eye strain or headaches, they can play another vital function too – they can make you look cool. Let’s face it, there’s nothing that compares to slouching on the train with your nose stuck into a George Pelecanos book – the poet laureate of crime fiction. He’s just, well, cool. And by association, because you’re peering over your reading glasses at the coolest writer on the planet, you are also acquiring some of his cool status. In fact, there is a long list of books considered too cool for school, from Kerouac to Carver. Stick a copy of Sylvia Plath or one of the classic poets – Coleridge or Byron – in your coat pocket and you instantly acquire respect.
Cool Reading Glasses: Cool Books
Reading glasses come in a variety of funky, fashionable styles. Teamed up with the right book and you’ve got the geek chic look wrapped up. Of course, reading is more than just making you look cool, it’s about expanding the mind and lifting the soul. But they can also make you look hip. The reading glasses will tell the world you’re taking your literature seriously – the books are not just for effect – but you plan on actually studying them studiously. It isn’t by chance that a book has become a hit in the publishing world is called How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read. A survey by World Book Day discovered that two out of three people admitted to lying about reading a particular book to impress someone. There are a range of well known titles that readers may have donned their reading glasses for but hadn’t actually read. In between the dust jackets of George Orwell’s 1984 and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace may have really been a well-hidden copy of Now magazine. The survey reasserts what we all know – reading is cool, sexy and impressive. It’s not surprising that reading glasses are worn just for their fashion – some even have clear glass instead of lenses.
Read it? Really???
Out of those questioned, 42% pretended to have read 1984, 31% said they lied about reading War and Peace, and 25% said they had read Ulysses by James Joyce when they clearly hadn’t. 24% even lied about reading the Bible (a sin in itself?), and 16% said they’d read Flaubert’s Madame Bovary but hadn’t. The list reveals the authors considered cool enough to lie about: Orwell, Tolstoy, Joyce, Flaubert and Proust. With those on your bookshelf, you’d certainly give an impression about your intellect, even if you haven’t gotten round to putting on the reading glasses on and actually, reading.
Find Cool Reading Glasses at Sight Station
Sight Station offers an array of stunning reading glasses in the UK and the USA. Find the latest designs of fashionable and trendy reading glasses, tinted reading glasses and clear lens fashion glasses. Shop online now or call us on 01322 318 511.