Learning to Love Reading Again

2019: The Year I Returned to Reading for Pleasure

Image by Linus Schütz from Pixabay.

Growing up I was an avid reader, testing well above grade-level pretty early on and devouring series like Vampires Don’t Wear Polka Dots and The Baby-Sitters Club quickly. When my mom suggested I read something more serious, like a biography, I rebelliously came home with an Elvis biography — really showed her! But somewhere between high school and college my…