Do you still read?

Reed, Shannon.  Why We Read: On Our Lifelong Love Affair With Books.  Toronto: Hanover 

         Square Press, 2023.  ISBN: 978-1-355-00796-4

Are you a reader?  Do you prefer reading to going to parties?  Do you constantly have a book or two or three that you have with you to read while waiting in line or for your meal to arrive?  If you do, than you are a kindred soul with Shannon Reed and will enjoy the tales she tells in Why We Read.

 

Shannon Reed lays out the arc of her life, especially her life with books and libraries, in short chapters.  Chapters such as "to Get to Go to the Library" or "To Finish a Series" or "Because I Wanted Free Pizza."  A really fun chapter was "Because Someone is Paying You to Teach a Class about Vampires" when Shannon Reed was an adjunct professor really dislikes horror!

Shannon Reed provides interesting quizzes and vignettes between the chapters of her life.  Some of these include "How I Choose a Book: A Thirteen-Step Guide," Signs You Might be a Character in a Popular Children's Book," or "The Five People You Meet When You Work in a Bookstore."  These interesting asides sometimes feel out of step with topics in other chapters, but are fun reads.

So if you like to read or are interested in why others like to read (or both!), pick up a copy of Shannon Reed's Why We Read and settle in for some quality you time!