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5 Great Articles About Reading

...to help you adapt the habit in our fast-changing world.

Your mom tells you to read. Your teacher or your boss tells you to read. Successful individuals tell you to read. They're right to tell you so.

For non-readers, it's not going to be an easy task. Reading is tedious. Sometimes a bit irksome, too. You find that words are drowning you in boredom and irritation before turning to the next page.

This is why I've collected a list of five helpful articles to aid you in reading actively, effectively, and habitually. Whether you're an avid bookworm like me or a stranger to pages, these articles can help you acquire the habit in our modern-day society.

1. How to Read the Right Way: A Complete Guide | Medium

Even books and reading evolve. In this article, author Melissa Chu tackles the art of speed reading, the pros and cons of different reading formats, and how to read in a changing society.

2. The Complete Guide to Effective Reading | Medium

Worry about memorizing dates for your history exam? Maarten van Doorn takes you into an in-depth analysis of acquiring information into your long-term memory, as well as how to read actively.

3. 14 Ways to Cultivate a Lifetime Reading Habit | Life Hack

Reading is a habit, not a chore. If it isn't one of your pastimes yet, don't worry! Life Hack presents to you 14 ways to make reading a pleasurable and worthwhile habit.

4. The Case for Reading Fiction | Harvard Business Review

Business and companies look for various skills and good characteristics in their employees. Harvard Business Review says that reading literary fiction can help you develop these in-demand traits, and ultimately become a better person.

5. Books are good for your brain. These techniques will help you read more | Popular Science

Here's the science behind the effects and benefits of reading. Popular Science shows you not only how to make reading a habit, but also how to read more and achieve your reading goal.

These are just some of the multitudes of articles I've found to help you learn to read. I hope this helps spark your inner reader!

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Found my cat curled up in my blanket this morning and I just had to take advantage of the cuteness!

Trivia Tuesday #3

Bookworm vocabulary: Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of reading material. Bibliosmia is the love of the smell of old books. Tsundoku (Japanese) means to let reading materials pile up in one's home and never read them.

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My biggest bookworm pet peeve is when other people open their books way too wide. I weep over white lines in the book's spine.

Readers are the best weightlifters, then.

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.”

— Inkheart by Cornelia Funke

"We read to get lost, to forget the hard times we're living in, and we read to remember those who came before us who lived through something harder."

– Jacqueline Woodson, YA fiction writer, from her TED talk: What reading slowly taught me about writing

“A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.” ― Ernest Hemingway