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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