National Read a Book Day 2022
My mother is quite the voracious reader. She has several favorite authors and her tastes are more on the entertainment side of the literacy equation.I used to be a high volume reader myself. However, my reading involved the technical aspects of work and as such were pretty dry fare to pursue as entertainment.
That amount of reading I have done in the past has likely limited the amount of reading I do presently.
After all, when you beat a guy over the head with book after book in pursuit of subject matter expertise it is bound to lose it's allure.
In my younger days I would read a lot. I even joined the Book of the Month Club and amassed quite a library.
I later revisited the club wanting to join yet again and the quality of offerings and bindings simply was no longer there.
I continue to maintain a fair amount of reading in my old age, however. Just not that massive workload to which I attended during my heyday.
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Today is National Read a Book Day. It goes down yearly each September 6th.
National Read a Book Day is your personal invitation to obtain a book or two and spend the day reading.
Sorry, but I don't think so.
Reading improves the functionality of the brain and thought patterns and is a stress reduction technique.
Readers who are also older adults will find keeping themselves mentally stimulated with literature will be more participtory as well as self and situationally aware.
Yeah, I think it's wonderful to read. I've just had about a gazillion too many books shoved at me by this stage of the game.
Happy Read a Book Day.