{"id":13619,"date":"2025-08-21T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13619\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T10:09:10","slug":"the-art-of-tome-signalling-from-timothee-chalamets-1984-to-sjp-with-sally-rooney-what-the-books-we-want-to-be-seen-reading-say-about-us-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/13619\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of tome signalling: From Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s 1984 to SJP with Sally Rooney, what the books we want to be seen reading say about us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nJust as we judge books by their covers, we judge people by their books, writes Emily Hourican who muses on the worthy works we keep on show versus the guilty pleasures stashed under our pillows\u2026\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"&quot;When Marilyn Monroe was photographed reading Ulysses, we all saw a different side of her: Marilyn-the-misunderstood-intellectual became as much a trope as Marilyn-the-insouciant-sex-bomb.&quot; Image: Clare Meredith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/8f22be9c-4e56-474a-9efc-9d57d6906495.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">&#8220;When Marilyn Monroe was photographed reading Ulysses, we all saw a different side of her: Marilyn-the-misunderstood-intellectual became as much a trope as Marilyn-the-insouciant-sex-bomb.&#8221; Image: Clare Meredith<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">I can\u2019t get shops to take my second-hand books for anything. And this despite the fact that, because I occasionally review books for this newspaper, I get sent many, many brand spanking new ones. These are not dog-eared copies of Nausea or The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, they are the \u2018thriller of the summer,\u2019 the Book of the Year, the \u2018new Sally Rooney\u2026\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Still no one wants them. Charity shops and second-hand bookshops are full. And yet Nick Cave can offload 2,000 books and people come clamouring. The manager of the Oxfam shop in Hove, UK, where Nick\u2019s books were donated, said the reaction was \u201cabsolutely mad\u201d, with fans coming from other towns and cities to buy his old paperbacks, the most popular of which have been scribbled in by Cave \u2013 responses to what he\u2019s read, thoughts, doodles, maybe reminders to self to buy milk. Whatever it is, the fans are in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as we judge books by their covers, we judge people by their books, writes Emily Hourican who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[266],"tags":[359,18,12324,117,19,17,4746],"class_list":{"0":"post-13619","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-emily-hourican","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-life-magazine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}