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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday<\/a> topic from That Artsy Reader Girl is “Reasons I Love Reading.” It reminded me of my grandmother who once (during an 11-day power outage) shared with me that she felt sorry for people who don’t read. “What do they do with all their time?” What indeed?<\/p>\n

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  1. Language excites me. A well-turned phrase needs to be shared with whoever is nearby (whether they’re interested or not. Sorry, Rudi.) New words are like candy. And I love how manipulating the way words are put together conveys so much.<\/li>\n

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  2. Waiting with a book is an opportunity to get a few pages in, rather than an opportunity for tedium or irritation.<\/li>\n

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  3. I love being transported to a different time and place.<\/li>\n

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  4. I am not wealthy enough or endowed with enough vacation time to go to all the places I want to visit … except with my library card.<\/li>\n

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  5. A shared love of a story is a shortcut. My college roommate said she knew the first night we’d be friends because I put a copy of Anne of Green Gables<\/em> on my desk. And seeing people reading the Harry Potter books in the first days after release helped me know there were lots of people who shared something important with me.<\/li>\n

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  6. I can juggle different worlds. At a tense point in the fantasy story? Dive into that romance novel until you’re feeling ready to go on. Someone once remarked they didn’t understand how I could read multiple books at once. “Don’t you get them mixed up?” I replied that I was perfectly capable of not confusing the details of multiple friends and this wasn’t especially different.<\/li>\n

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  7. Books can fill in for friends (for a little while) when you’re feeling lonely and out of your element. When we moved to D.C., we brought a carload of stuff with us at a time. I had a box of books I insisted had to come with me first off.<\/li>\n

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  8. Your books tell me about you. The first thing I do on going to someone’s home for the first time is to look at their bookshelves.<\/li>\n

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  9. It’s the best way to learn things! I mean, sure YouTube is absolutely faster if I want to learn how to knit an i-cord. But if I want to learn the history of knitting or why microaggressions are so virulent? I’m turning to a book.<\/li>\n

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  10. Sometimes, a magical book will make you feel seen in a way that nothing else does.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Why do you love to read?<\/p>\n

    Oh, and while I have you bookish people here: Are there spoilers to Six of Crows<\/em> if I start reading it before I finish watching season one of Shadow and Bone<\/em> on Netflix? I started listening to it last year and quickly realized it would be a book I’d enjoy more in print. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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