Title: 25 Reasons to Read – Across the Page
Headings: 25 Reasons to Read
25 Reasons to Read
Content: They raise us to a new level if we’re willing to work. To learn to listen. Reading, submitting to the text for the purpose of understanding it on its own terms, calls forth our better faculties, our better selves. To rehearse new cognitive pathways — to break out of our habitual thinking by following someone else’s from the first page to the last. To amuse yourself (or others). To escape yourself (or others). To pass the time. To make yourself sleepy at night. To create memories by reading aloud — to children, or whole families. To gain power, subversive or otherwise.