Photo of west Louisville teen walking down the street while reading goes viral | News from WDRB [Video]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A photo of a teenager walking in west Louisville caught a lot of attention on social media.

If you look closely, he’s not holding a phone. He’s holding a book.

A Louisville man snapped the photo on his way home from work near 39th Street. He was impressed by what he saw: a boy reading a book while walking down the street. The post has since gone viral.

“I like reading Manga mystery,” Thaddeus Mason, a Louisville native and Jefferson County Public Schools student, said. “I came here to the library and then somebody told me I was on Facebook reading a book.”

The picture of the 13-year-old went viral on Facebook.

“I did not know who took the picture of me. I was walking down the street … I was just walking down the street reading a …