Get Out of My Head, Stephen King!

By Katie Rouse

Hello, my name is Katie, and I don’t read enough.

That’s it. That’s my confession.

It has been 30 days since I last read a sentence that wasn’t my own. I can count the number of books I’ve read in the last six months on a single hand. If I hear one more author say, “Writers must read voraciously!”—I might quit.

I didn’t love reading for most of my childhood, getting through elementary school on Great Illustrated Classics. Then in 7th grade, I stumbled on my dad’s hi...