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JULY READING NOTES: AN INTRODUCTION

I love to read. Both for pleasure and to learn something. Which has its own pleasures. I read to escape. I read to help clarify ideas that have been bouncing around in my head. For fun, for knowledge, for wisdom. To commune with minds long gone from the earth but whose thoughts and ideas and emotions and passions still resonate with me. Readers all know each other. We are all of the same tribe. We might read different things and we might read for different reasons but we all love to read. And reading has its sibling passions: books and book collecting, libraries and reading rooms, spoken word and writing. Journals, dairies and notebooks. When I met my wife I knew that we both loved books and reading. We bonded over shared authors, great stories and a passion for books. How do I read? We all have our favorite ways to read. Some do it on the commute, some sitting in the park. Travel reading, bathroom reading, quiet middle of the night, early morning, sleepy afternoon reading. Some li...