Happy National Read a Book Day!

Did you know there was a National Read a Book day? I didn’t! But now I thought it would be a fun way to share my love of reading.

Since I was young…

I’ve loved to read for as far as I can remember. Seriously. I wasn’t a shy kid, I played sports, I loved social events but I am not sure that I was ever really happier than when I found or finished a book. I can remember biking to the library and checking out as many books as I could and reading books that were far beyond my age at the time. My mom still has no idea how she ended up with three bookish children when she is such a math whiz.

You don’t usually end up teaching literacy and reading for a living if you don’t enjoy it. I take that back…. I am sure there are plenty of people out there who do but that isn’t me and would never work for me. That is like my teaching math knowing how much I dislike it.

Did you know?

📚 Book readers were shown to have a 20% “reduction in risk of mortality” over 12 years, compared to non–book readers in a 2016 study.

📚In 2018, the Pew Research group released figures suggesting that 24% of American adults say they have not read a book — in part or whole, in print or electronically or audibly — in the past year.

But I don’t have time…

Now considering I am a part of the #bookstagram community and many of the bloggers I follow are big readers those facts both do and don’t surprise me. If you are a big reader, how often has someone said you… “I don’t have time to read” or “I don’t know how you find the time to read, I have so much else to do” <insert 1000 other things they have to do>

Finding joy in National Read a Book Day

I like to respond to those who don’t know how I find the time by saying it isn’t a chore, I don’t have to find time for it because I love reading. I’d rather read than do a lot of other things.

Although my usual spot is on the couch or in my reading nook, I will pretty much read anywhere.