National Read A Book Day

Today is NATIONAL READ A BOOK DAY.

Reading is the perfect way . . .

  • to escape all the noise and find ourselves (or lose ourselves) in a good book.
  • to see and improve ourselves.
  • to fight depression.
  • to prevent cognitive decline.
  • to expand our ability to empathize with other people.
  • to, I would argue, help us to feel less alone in whatever it is we’ve been through or are going through.

This chapter excerpt below from my book Willower: rewriting life after unimaginable loss (to be released this October) , I think, is a perfect sampling to use today for National Read A Book Day.

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