I was the kid who read everything, even multiple times. But at some point I stopped reading for probably ten years or maybe more. I had little kids and unmedicated depression and anxiety, and I spent a lot of time on early 2000s moms’ forums.
I read a book here and there, mostly for work, and I did read the whole Harry Potter series whe…
I was the kid who read everything, even multiple times. But at some point I stopped reading for probably ten years or maybe more. I had little kids and unmedicated depression and anxiety, and I spent a lot of time on early 2000s moms’ forums.
I read a book here and there, mostly for work, and I did read the whole Harry Potter series when my daughter read it.
But then I moved 700 miles away, my job that I moved for was awful, and one of my best friends died suddenly. Two things got me through: the whole series of Veronica Mars, which I had never seen, and murder mystery novels. Specifically, the In Death series that has like 55 books in it so far.
I started reading other stuff too, and enjoying it like when I was a kid. It stuck.
My point with this Ted Talk is that as AHP said, reading should be FUN. There are no rules about it and sometimes it goes away for a while, and if we’re lucky, we find it again out of survival or desperation or whatever.
I was the kid who read everything, even multiple times. But at some point I stopped reading for probably ten years or maybe more. I had little kids and unmedicated depression and anxiety, and I spent a lot of time on early 2000s moms’ forums.
I read a book here and there, mostly for work, and I did read the whole Harry Potter series when my daughter read it.
But then I moved 700 miles away, my job that I moved for was awful, and one of my best friends died suddenly. Two things got me through: the whole series of Veronica Mars, which I had never seen, and murder mystery novels. Specifically, the In Death series that has like 55 books in it so far.
I started reading other stuff too, and enjoying it like when I was a kid. It stuck.
My point with this Ted Talk is that as AHP said, reading should be FUN. There are no rules about it and sometimes it goes away for a while, and if we’re lucky, we find it again out of survival or desperation or whatever.