Day 67: Reading

Tonight I finished the book I’ve been reading for a while, Greenglass House by Kate Milford. The pace at the beginning of the story was painfully slow, but after a while I realized that part of the problem was that I was being painfully slow to read it. I was only reading a few pages each night before bed. You can read a book that way, but it takes forever, and it’s hard to become invested in it. If you want to enjoy a book, and particularly if you want to enjoy more than just a few books per year, you have to set aside time for reading. You have to turn off the TV, and the computer, and stop playing piano or whatever else it is you do when you’re not reading, and pick up a book. And read and read and read. Anyone who really loves reading knows that. Sometimes they just forget.