'Reading is so magical, so important — and sometimes, so excruciating to sit through.'
to bring about the health benefits of meditation, putting our brains into a pleasurable trance-like state. As for me, I’m sharpening my self-control skills. How many times must we read the same Black Panther book?
And then, when a new book enters the rotation, I lie there thinking that since the dog has fallen off his scooter twice now, this one must be the time he gets it. Surely, we are at the climax.
Of course, of course, these are moments to be cherished. I am grateful for my children’s developing minds, for their love of books and desire to read them. Stephen King called books “a uniquely portable magic.” And anyone who has ever experienced Max’s sailing into the night of his very own room, or Harry’s first run into the wall of Platform 9¾, or Jo March’s writing by candlelight in her attic, knows it to be true.
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