No time to read?
I've got no time to read a book people often tell me. And I can see they have a point. What with jobs, family, housework, commitments to friends, exercise schedules....it's all very frazzling and doesn't leave much time to enjoy fiction. Which is exactly why we should.
The other day I got an email via my website from a woman who was in hospital with pregnancy complications. It was a worrying time but she said her husband had bought her one of my novels and it had absorbed her so completely it helped her forget her anxieties for a while (the nice man went and got her two more).
It's not the first a message like that I've received. People have told me my books have helped them through periods of illness, stress at work, emotionally difficult times. They say while reading them they forget about their own lives and feel as if they're there in Italy amongst the characters.
This pleases me because it's exactly what I'm hoping to achieve. But it also proves my point. Nothing is more relaxing or rewarding than reading a good book.
So if you yearn for more time to read here's my advice. First get your hands on the kind of novel you completely, madly love (not a duty read or something dense and challenging if that's not what you feel like). Now let standards slip a bit. Leave those dishes in the sink, let the fly poo stay on the ceilings, hide from your phone, television and computer, pour a glass of something yummy and find a quiet place. And suddenly there it is...time to read.
The other day I got an email via my website from a woman who was in hospital with pregnancy complications. It was a worrying time but she said her husband had bought her one of my novels and it had absorbed her so completely it helped her forget her anxieties for a while (the nice man went and got her two more).
It's not the first a message like that I've received. People have told me my books have helped them through periods of illness, stress at work, emotionally difficult times. They say while reading them they forget about their own lives and feel as if they're there in Italy amongst the characters.
This pleases me because it's exactly what I'm hoping to achieve. But it also proves my point. Nothing is more relaxing or rewarding than reading a good book.
So if you yearn for more time to read here's my advice. First get your hands on the kind of novel you completely, madly love (not a duty read or something dense and challenging if that's not what you feel like). Now let standards slip a bit. Leave those dishes in the sink, let the fly poo stay on the ceilings, hide from your phone, television and computer, pour a glass of something yummy and find a quiet place. And suddenly there it is...time to read.
Published on February 25, 2014 00:40
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