One day this past summer as a friend and I were wandering through various used bookstores around town, I was uncharacteristically impatient to leave and couldn't seem to focus on anything in particular. After leaving behind the one book I was searching for, my friend asked me an important question- he wondered why I read. Initially, this seemed like a silly question. I read because I like books, I promptly told him. He looked at me quizzically, searching for something more. "But do you enjoy reading?" he asked me. "Of Course I enjoy reading" I answered, still not understanding what he was getting at. Then he probed further. "When's the last time you read a book purely for enjoyment?" This question gave me pause. After all, I have a reputation for devouring books, and I'm always reading something. At the same time, for the last 15+ years since I started my career as a Children's Bookseller, I've read almost exclusively for work. I can count the number of just-for-the-fun-of-it books I've read in the last year on one hand, including two
Why I Read
Why I Read
Why I Read
One day this past summer as a friend and I were wandering through various used bookstores around town, I was uncharacteristically impatient to leave and couldn't seem to focus on anything in particular. After leaving behind the one book I was searching for, my friend asked me an important question- he wondered why I read. Initially, this seemed like a silly question. I read because I like books, I promptly told him. He looked at me quizzically, searching for something more. "But do you enjoy reading?" he asked me. "Of Course I enjoy reading" I answered, still not understanding what he was getting at. Then he probed further. "When's the last time you read a book purely for enjoyment?" This question gave me pause. After all, I have a reputation for devouring books, and I'm always reading something. At the same time, for the last 15+ years since I started my career as a Children's Bookseller, I've read almost exclusively for work. I can count the number of just-for-the-fun-of-it books I've read in the last year on one hand, including two