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[quote=Anonymous]There are piles of books all over my house - not the ones on the shelves, but the ones I’m looking at right now and will read soon. ;) Also I have an always changing pile of library books by my recliner. Some only get skimmed and some get read entirely. I have a voracious appetite for new books lol.

I admittedly read much less now than ever before in my life but cannot imagine the lives without any books that so many people lead after they finish schooling.

However, having listened to the podcast Sold a Story last year, I realize that a really large portion of the younger than me population was short shrifted by reading education in public schooling and have always struggled with reading. If reading is hard, people won’t read for pleasure. When I suffered the worst of my depression reading was hard (concentrating) and I hardly read for several years. :(

Learning about the reading crisis in this country is the biggest reason I’ve decided to make a midlife career change to public school teaching. And so I could have 10 weeks off to read every year. ;)[/quote]

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