Beach Reads Have Value

Beach reads bring connection and happiness and help us de-stress. Why isn't that alone valuable to most serious readers? [Today’s writing prompt is at the bottom of this post.]

In a world of divisive chaos, shallow consumerism, reactive anxiety, petty insecurities, and online trolls…why are people still claiming beach reads have no real value and mock them? As if all those mean-spirited juvenile political memes and one-line online clapbacks aren't what we all should be collectively mocking instead? 

Beach reads can probably be …