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July 6, 2021

Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Reasons Why I Love Reading

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I’m linking up today with That Artsy Reader Girl: Top Ten Tuesday: 10 Reasons Why I Love Reading.

Why do YOU love to read?

The most simple reason I love reading is that I’m a lifelong reader and have always loved the world of words. I’m the kid who read the cereal box with my breakfast in the morning.

People who love reading and are lifelong readers, usually love it for several of the same reasons. I suppose that many readers could make a similar list. I’m joining in with other TTT list makers today to celebrate the love of reading. Which reason would top your list? Do you have other reasons why you love reading?

I Love Reading….

To experience different lives/times/cultures.

One of the most significant benefits of reading is transporting yourself to different time periods and experiencing different cultures. I often wonder how I would have lived my life during various times and circumstances. Reading improves the imagination.

To Develop Understanding and Compassion

Reading enhances compassion for others as we see life from other perspectives.

To Increase My Knowledge

I love historical fiction because I am continuing my education. Hazards of reading histfic include falling down Google rabbit holes as I am enticed to research different people, time periods, and events. Reading makes you smarter.

I wonder how non-readers survived the pandemic? Although my reading tastes gravitated toward lighter, happier reads during the pandemic, I could always turn off the news and escape into books. Days under lockdown never felt too bleak as I leaped into different imaginary worlds! Reading provides armchair travel and gives you places to go when you have to stay home.

To Experience “Book People Are the Best People”

Have you ever seen someone reading in a coffee shop or on a train and knew that you could be friends with that person because he/she was reading a book? Readers attract other readers and are the most interesting and thoughtful conversationalists! In addition, through blogging I have discovered the fabulous international book blogging community! Reading brings people together.

To Be a Good Conversationalist

One of my favorite conversation starters is “What are you reading?” or “What is your favorite book so far this year?” or “Do you have a favorite literary character?” or “Do you have a favorite author or genre?” Talking about books gives people opportunities to discuss a variety of important and meaningful topics. I’m always flummoxed when the answer is “I don’t read.” Hummmm……. At that point, I ask the person to recall a time in their life when they did enjoy a book. Just recently my grandson, who is not a huge reader, told me that the only book he really ever enjoyed reading was Wild Robot. I think that’s great that he has identified one book that has given him a fond reading memory. I believe people who don’t read just haven’t found the right book yet, so my brain begins whirling with recommendations that would hook them.

To Endure Waiting

Actually, I look forward to waiting rooms! Even a long checkout line is a reading opportunity (if you carry your library with you in your pocket via the Kindle app). A thirty-minute wait in the school pick-up line becomes an excellent reading occasion! Even traffic can be a blessing if you are listening to an audiobook!

To Never Experience Boredom

Nothing on TV? No problem when you’ve got a book. All your friends are busy and you don’t have plans? No problem when you can read. Is it raining all weekend or you’re enduring an unprecedented heatwave or you’re under a hurricane or tornado warning and your outdoor plans have been canceled? Books to the rescue. Children need entertainment? Read a book together and then watch the movie. Books can be your best friend.

To Enjoy Inexpensive Entertainment

Books can be expensive, but there are ways to read on the cheap. Libraries, thrift stores, yard sales, Little Free Libraries, swapping with friends, watching for Kindle deals, asking publishers for ARCs, and Amazon gift cards for birthdays are all ways to cut down on book buying expenses. Last year I read 131 books: over 50% were from the library and another 30% were ARCs…..I bought only a small percentage of books last year and those were almost all on sale. A night at the movies or dinner in a restaurant will likely cost more than a book purchase.

To Give Book Recommendations

As a reader, I always have book recommendations! I love being able to find just the right book for a gift or make a perfect recommendation!

What’s your number one reason why you love reading?

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42 comments.

It’s fun and a great escape. I like your reasons. http://www.rsrue.blogspot.com

Thanks for commenting!

All of the above! I watch Kindle deals and GoodReads giveaways like it was my job LOL. I also like reading because it’s been a habit since I was nine years old. It’s been a constant in my life. How many hobbies can you say that you can grow with throughout the years?

Yes, reading is a wonderful lifelong hobby!

I agree with all of these, but I particularly love #6. I think being someone who is well known for being a reader makes me more accessible. Even people who don’t read know they can always start a conversation with me by asking, “What are you reading?” or “What’s the best book you’ve read this year?” I love it when people, especially non-readers, make that effort. Of course, I have longer conversations with those who actually read, but still…

Susan http://www.blogginboutbooks.com

Oh that’s a great insight Susan! Thanks for sharing!

Experiencing different cultures and lives is one of the best parts of reading, I think.

My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-reasons-why-i-love-reading/

I think so, too Lydia! Hoping over now to read your post!

I love your answers Carol. I just commented on another post about the people I have met when I am in Florida because they are reading and I stop and talk to them about their book. Some of them are there every year and we have become good friends. I don’t know what I would do if I couldn’t read, it is unfathomable.

Right?! What do people do who don’t read?! And reading is a great way to make friends! 🙌 virtually and IRL!

I’ve always being a reader. It gives me the opportunity to live different lives and be different characters I can’t be in real life. It’s the perfect excuse to not attend some programs I find boring with friends. It keeps my company and I am never bored. I don’t know if it’s just me but reading in the library gives me headache, hence am better off alone outside the library. I feel like it makes me productive. And when I meet people I can discuss the books I read with, that’s the best moments of my life. I am creating a group on WhatsApp where I can review/ discuss books with my friends. You can’t get into trouble reading books.

Escapism at its best! And you’re right, you can’t get into trouble! 🙌😂

I have always loved reading as well. There was a time when I was working full-time and attending college when I didn’t have time to read what I wanted to read and I remember longing for the time when I could read what I wanted to read.

I read for all of the same reasons you do, but I think my number one reason is that I am fully relaxed when I am reading. I realized this when going through a particularly difficult season. Like you Carol, I can’t imagine how people who don’t read deal with difficult times.

Thanks for sharing Gretchen! Reading does have its seasons. And yes I love how reading takes us away!

A great collection of reasons!

Here is my TTT post: https://readbakecreate.com/?p=468

Thanks for commenting! Hopping over now to read your post!

I agree with you. “Book people” are pretty cool! Here’s my list!

Thanks for commenting Lectrice! I’m hopping over now to read your post.

All of these responses resonated with me Carol, especially learning new things and escaping. I also use our local library and the apps available, so I’m not spending too much money on my reading addiction. I also agree with Gretchen above, I am at my most relaxed when reading a book. I can block out the world around me and just be in the book. That’s why I find audio books a bit hard at times, I am always doing something like driving or walking while listening to them and I can’t get the pictures from the words like I can when I read the words myself – if that makes sense! Great list!

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Deb! I struggle with audio, too. I need to see the words!

I’m glad I’m not the only one to do so Carol. I keep persevering with it though.

I could relate to all of these. Making a decision a few years ago to read more books from authors around the world has given me far more insight into different cultures. Your number 6 reason is an good one. I’ve used books and reading as ice breakers when visiting colleagues in different countries : asking someone what books they would recommend from their country helped break down reservations.

Book questions make great conversation starters!

Brilliant reasons. We all share a lot of them.

Thanks Marianne! I’m hopping over now to read your post!

All great reasons! Never being bored, for sure — there’s no excuse for having nothing to do! (And I never understand how people can sit on an airplane for hours without a book in their hands… I think I would be looking for an exit and a parachute if I couldn’t read on planes!) My TTT

I think the same about people who sit on planes and in waiting rooms without reading! Hopping over now to read your post.

10 wonderful reasons for reading Carol. Plus, look at all the ‘friends’ we get to make and chat with that we would never have otherwise met! ❤📚

Bookish friends from around the world are the best! 🙌😍📚

Great post! I’m in it for the escapism and new ideas mostly

Can’t argue with that! 😍🙌

#1 is escape! And I truly love learning anything!

Yay for escape! We needed it in 2020!

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Thanks for the shout out! 🙌😍

Reading is purely about escapism for me. I want to live in a completely made up world.

Love to escape! 😍🙌

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For the Love of the Books

There was extra time left at the end of the class and our Koran/Religious Studies teacher was allowing us to quietly do whatever we liked until break time. This was seventh grade and I’d never had a teacher remotely like her. She was young and pretty, unlike our other Divinity teachers, who made it a point to dress badly and look bland. She had serene, generous eyes, and her brightly colored manteaus and overcoats were always tasteful and carefully ironed. It took me a while to gather enough courage to go up to her desk, a crumpled piece of paper clammy from my sweaty palm in hand. Unfolding the balled-up note, I asked nervously, “What does this mean?” It was a word I didn’t know how to pronounce, so I’d written it out: اگزیستانسیالیسم, existentialism . I caught the look of shock on our teacher’s face as her eyes darted back and forth between me and the piece of paper. Then in a cold tone she asked, “Where did you find this word?” I still hadn’t realized there might be something so terribly wrong and even believed that I’d managed to inspire her admiration over a difficult word. I told her that I’d found it in an article that the writer Jalal Al-e Ahmad had written about the novel The Blind Owl . The teacher’s face turned red. She was trying to keep her voice down but there was definite disapproval in her tone. “Who told you to read such a book? Where did you even get it? Do you know that its writer, Sadegh Hedayat, killed himself? Do you realize suicide is a great sacrilege? What else do you read? You shouldn’t be reading this sort of thing.”

As she spoke her voice became gradually less reproachful but also more desperate, as if she suspected it was already too late and there was no turning back for me from a fate similar to that of the writer of The Blind Owl . I stared at my shoes and said nothing about what other sorts of books one could find in our house, and that no matter where my older brother might hide his precious volumes, I’d still find them. For a moment I even wondered if our teacher simply didn’t know what that word meant. I wasn’t feeling bad or guilty, just a sense that it was best I turn around now, go silently back to my seat, and keep my mouth shut. I was twelve years old at the time and already sure that books were my first and last love. This certainty, though, came with a price, a constant reminder that my love of books was not something I should cultivate or be glad about. In fact, in the world where I grew up, books—at least certain books—were seen as something dangerous, something to be wary of and keep at a distance if possible. Later in life, I’d briefly wonder if there might not be some elemental truth to such fears. But at age twelve, walking quietly back to that school desk, firm in my intention to never ask a teacher questions about literature again, I already knew that I’d go home and somehow unearth every book that was left to read in my brother’s bookshelf. No one could stop me.

There is the world before a person discovers books and there is the world after. It is a kind of matrimony. Dangerous, but necessary—especially for those of us for whom a life of not reading might seem simpler, but also drab and ultimately colorless. I was determined: one day I’d marry a book.

The “book” I wished to marry, the man of my dreams, had to be someone like my brother, Hossein, the person who most resembled a combination of fictional characters like Thomas Fowler of The Quiet American , Prince Bolkonsky of War and Peace , and Rochester of Jane Eyre . Men who were stubborn and hard to pin down, who were jaded and proud, and who even possessed more than a touch of arrogance.

Hossein was working on his master’s thesis in Economics when he decided to drop it all. He was a poet at heart. But he was also a working journalist and a veteran who’d been at the Karbala 5 operations at the bitterly contested Faw Peninsula during the Iran-Iraq War. Later on, during the Afghan Civil War, he would fight alongside his close friend, the legendary commander of the Northern Alliance, Ahmad Shah Masood, and later still he’d fall into the hands of their merciless enemy, the Taliban, for a time. Yet this was the same man who also loved the poetry of Rumi and Vladimir Mayakovsky, and you’d often see him tramping among his papers scattered in the middle of our living room, reciting out loud from Homage to Catalonia , George Orwell’s personal account of the Spanish Civil War.

Hossein was unlike anyone I knew. And I was sure he was that way because of all the books he’d read. Save for a few volumes of the Koran that belonged to our father, all the other books in our house were Hossein’s. He was the owner of a magic treasure chest. He could open that chest and lend me a share of the magic inside.

Which he did. Partly.

But I was hungrier than he’d imagined and would not be satisfied with just what he doled out. I wanted more. Much more. Therefore my first rebellion in life turned out to be directed at my brother, the man I worshipped. He had separated his books into those that my sister and I could read and those that he didn’t want us to touch. His words: “Forget about these other books.” I suppose he felt two adolescent girls growing up in a provincial city in the northeast of Iran weren’t ready yet to read modernist Persian texts and translations of the works of Ernest Hemingway, Graham Greene, and Jean-Paul Sartre.

A lot of Hossein’s books weren’t even shelved. In a working-class home on the poor side of the city of Mashhad, right after the long eight years of war with Iraq, owning enough bookshelves was beyond our means. Most of the books sat stacked in boxes, silent but pregnant with mysteries that our brother didn’t feel we were ready for. Except that he wasn’t there to watch us. Hossein was usually away, lugging a camera to some troubled spot. I can’t recall how long it took before I gave in to the temptation and also made my sister a partner in crime. One day, inevitably, we quit just hovering around those boxes and dug in. We heaved, pushed and pulled, until our tiny hands had managed to undo all those gigantic cartons. I have no idea what prompted my sister to choose Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Gambler first, while I chose W. Somerset Maugham’s Of Human Bondage . Nor could I tell you so many years later exactly how much I understood of what I read back then. But I do remember the hours upon hours spent in various corners of the house, engulfed and dreaming. If there was a heaven at all, this had to be it. But when the inevitable happened and my brother returned from one of his trips to find out we had not listened to him and had delved into the forbidden fruit, he locked the door to Eden. Stifling his natural compassion, Hossein banned us from reaching for any of the books in his library for the next few years.

The female librarian at University of Tehran’s central library takes the two-volume copy of Anna Karenina from me and asks, “You read the whole thing?” I nod yes. By now I’m a junior in college, and it’s been just a little over two years since I left Mashhad and came to the capital to study and, hopefully, have my own share of adventures. The librarian puts the books down with distaste and says, “Some women are monsters!” Not knowing how to react, I offer an inane smile. To my understanding, the tragic woman in the novel is nothing like how the librarian describes her. She’s sincere and intelligent. I care about her. And this mindless smile that I offer as an answer is one that, in retrospect, I will go on to offer the world every time I’m faced with declarations and judgments from people who know nothing of the world of shadows, people for whom there is only certainty and no relative answers to difficult questions, people who are forever sure of what’s black and what’s white and who’s guilty and who is not. Books, the very act of reading, have stripped me of absolutes. I do not dislike Anna Karenina, and this is dangerous to our librarian. As I reach to take back my college ID, I see that she has noticed what I’m majoring in and is giving me a hard stare. “You’re actually studying to be a librarian?” Her look turns to one of pity and she continues, “There was nothing else for you to choose besides this? Are you serious? Tomorrow when you graduate what do you think you’ll do? There’s no money in what we do and no job. Take a good look; at most you’ll become someone like me. Is that what you really want?”

I have no answers. There’s no way I can explain that I came to Tehran to major in Library Science because, as absurd and laughable as it seems, I have always wanted to marry a book. There’s no explaining that I am here because I could not stand the thought of ever being separated from books and I figured Library Science would guarantee me this marriage. I might in fact try to tell her all of this. But she would not understand. In her curious yet apathetic stare there’s not the slightest hint of the abandon that comes from a true love of books. And all the volumes in this great library have not made a dent in her reasoning. She does not suffer from the bug as I do. We each speak a different language.

The person who did speak my language, however, was an old man I’d met almost ten years earlier, just after my fall from grace with my brother. He was a retired school principal in our neighborhood who had turned one of the rooms in his house to a books-for-rent shop. He had a daughter about my own age who was in charge of running the store. For every twenty-four-hour rental of a book they charged a negligible sum. What made the whole setup even more odd was that it existed in a part of our town where just about every head of a family was a laborer, a place where there was so little interest in books that they were not even used as decoration, where speaking “high language” was considered effete and a sign of incompetence, and where there were at least five children to each household. To try to make a living here by peddling the gibberish of “unbelievers” from clear across the planet who, on top of everything else, had never done right by us and this country, was nothing short of lunacy. That old man, whom I saw only once in his “shop,” had to be truly mad to be doing this. Yet I understood his affliction. I understood that the bug had gotten to him just as it had gotten to me.

When I discovered the books-for-rent shop, nearly two years had passed since my brother’s punishment. Hossein’s library remained forbidden. I would rent the books and take them home to breathlessly read right in front of our banned library so that Hossein would take notice. Wuthering Heights , Madame Bovary , Anton Chekhov’s The Lady with the Dog , The Thirsty Wall and the Stream by the Iranian writer Ebrahim Golestan, Heinrich Böll’s The Clown . . .

It was as if I had found my way back to Eden. My brother saw what was happening, but he stayed silent; not once did he ask me where I was getting those books or reproach me for going against his mandate. So I kept on reading, right through the scorching summer when I was fifteen. I read, and Hossein remained silent. Then one week into autumn, he finally pointed to his shelf and his boxes of books and bellowed, “Those books over there are not just for show!” He had finally surrendered. He was a man who had seen enough of the world to know when it was too late. Whatever calamity he’d believed might befall a teenage Iranian girl whose passion was books was already here. There was no going back for either one of us.

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Why I Love Reading (Ft. Books You’ll Love Reading, Too)

Posted July 6, 2021 by Sammie in book list , recommendations , top ten tuesdays / 25 Comments

I think it’s no secret by now that I love reading.

I mean, this is my book blog, after all. And chances are you’re here because you enjoy reading, too. So maybe this post is a little bit preaching to the choir. The thing is, though, that working as a librarian, I run into a lot of people who don’t enjoy reading. And sometimes they’re a bit befuddled as to why I do. So let me clear the air a little in that regard.

Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is reasons why I love reading. I’ve done similar posts in the past, such as why I love reading fantasy , how my reading has changed since childhood , and how blogging has changed my reading . But I haven’t done one specifically about my love for reading in general yet, so here we are.

It wouldn’t be one of my posts, though, if it didn’t also hurt your TBR. So not only am I going to tell you why I love reading, but I’m going to give you books that I loved to read for that specific reason! So let the bookish love begin!

1. It’s like watching a movie . . . with your brain .

I tend to be really bad at watching movies, because I have a short attention span. It’s such a passive thing to do, so my mind tends to wander. It’s the same problem I have with audiobooks. Reading, though, is more of an active process that requires me to actually do something, so I can focus better when reading. I do have this weird thing where I’m not great at picturing stuff that I read, so what I picture isn’t necessarily accurate to how the author wrote it (because paying attention to details is hard, okay?).

The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind

2. I get to go on any number of adventures and experience things I likely won’t ever get a chance to in this lifetime.

I mean, first of all, you need to actually leave the house to have an adventure, and that’s not worked out well for us in the past year and a half, has it? Pandemics aside, I’m just not the extroverted, travel sort of person. I mean, there are people out there that want to, like, talk and invade your space and other exhausting things. No thank you. Besides, books let you see worlds that don’t technically exist (that we know of) and things that you won’t find just by going on an adventure. Plus, you get to visit while in the air conditioned comfort of your couch in your pajamas. Hard to pass that up, isn’t it?

3. It keeps my brain sharp and makes me question everything .

Sometimes this is done via mystery. I love whodunnit books, and I always want to try to solve them before the protagonists. Sometimes this is done through plot twists. You know that moment where you’re 99% sure you’ve worked everything out perfectly and you know exactly what’s going to happen. Then WHAM, you’re blindsided by something that should’ve been so bloody obvious and yet somehow you hadn’t even considered it. I love that sort of twist. Bonus points if it then makes me suspicious of every character that ever existed.

Sometimes, though, it’s just a good nonfiction book. I don’t read a ton of nonfiction, but I’ve found some really great ones over the years that teach me something new, even if it’s just how to see the world through someone else’s perspective.

4. Dark humor and sarcastic narrators are definitely a thing in books.

It may not come as much of a surprise, but since I live in the Bible belt in a small, Conservative town, it’s sometimes hard to find people with my sense of humor. Namely, a dark, sarcastic one. Now, I’m not saying that the two things are mutually exclusive (because they’re absolutely not). I’m just saying that I can’t actually joke with a lot of people in my county the way I would with a friend. Or you people. (Then again, we’re all friends here, right?)

So when I meet a character who’s cynical, with sharp, biting wit and a nasty sense of sarcasm, I immediately feel like I’m home. Yes, these are my people. I’ve finally found them! The greatest thing about books is being able to relate to characters in weird and unexpected ways, and generally mine is through sarcasm and humor.

5. I can see other wondrous (or sometimes terrifying) worlds that I normally can’t (because the real world is lame).

I would love for someone to find a way to make this world more like some of the bookish worlds. Preferably the ones that won’t end with my imminent demise, but you know what? I’m not picky. If that’s where we end up, that’s where we end up. I’ll at least make a good run of it.

I read a lot of fantasy mostly because I love seeing the different worlds that authors come up with. Sometimes they’re full of wonder and magic and everything I want to be real. Sometimes they’re filled with mythology that I definitely want to be real. Then again, they might also be utterly dark and terrifying and fun to visit in book form only and definitely not something I’d want to travel to. Probably. I dunno, knowing me, I might be convinced regardless.

6. I’m able to learn about other cultures that I may never get the chance to physically visit.

At some point in my life, I would love to travel and see different cultures and learn different things. However, the money situation being what it is, that’s not going to happen for a little while. Being able to expand my horizons and learn about different cultures through fiction is a great option. Especially since there’s a large amount of people who just can’t afford to travel or have other reasons they’re unable to. Learning about other cultures increases empathy and understanding, which is always a good thing.

7. Sometimes, books can be just the warm, uplifting hug feeling that you need in an otherwise crappy world.

Some days, it’s just nice to read a book that gives you the warm fuzzies. It’s part escapism and part survival instinct so that you don’t give up on life completely (because humans can be utterly frustrating). I tend to read a lot of dark fantasy, but once in a while, I pick up something lighter. Something that just restores my faith in people and leaves me with a big smile on my face, ready to take on the world again. Listen, the world needs necromancers and dragons, but it also needs books that feel like warm hugs. It balances things out.

8. Or they can scare the crap out of you and keep you awake because sleep is for the weak (and victims of ax murderers/murderous ghosts).

The world also needs books that will scare the bejeesus out of you and remind you to be thankful that nothing sinister has found you in the darkness. Yet. Paranormal horror is my favorite kind. Nothing too gory, but just enough to make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. The sort that makes the shadows move in the darkness, that convince you eyes are watching you. It’s just the sort of chill I need to cool down in the summer heat!

9. Reading was a special thing in my family that I had in common with the people who meant the most to me.

My grandfather had a nervous breakdown before I was born, and he only just started to come out of it when I was a baby. So he read a lot . We made a weekly trip to the local library, which is where my love for libraries originally came from. Before I could read (and sometimes even after), he and my mother and grandmother would read everything to me (newspapers, even, if we ran out of books that week).

Also fun fact: the first significant gift my husband ever gave me was Meditations by Marcus Aurelius for my birthday a couple months before we started dating. I mean, who gives a sixteen-year-old a book, let alone a philosophy book , for their birthday?! My future husband, obviously. I knew it right then and there. (That’s a lie. I’d liked him for years . That just solidified that my initial reaction was, in fact, correct.)

I’m also adding Harry Potter here. I know how problematic J. K. Rowling is now. Of course I do. But in 1998, when my aunt showed up at my door with the first book in hand, insisting that I just had to read this book her friend gave her? JKR was a nobody, and continued to be that way—for me, at least—until long after I finished reading the series. My aunt worked nights, so she would always wait in line to buy the next book at midnight, read it overnight at work, and then bring it to me the next day when she was done. We also had a tradition that the week the next Harry Potter movie came out, she would take me to see it. Regardless of what JKR does, nothing can erase the bond the series created between my aunt and I. Unfortunately, she passed away in March 2009, so she didn’t even get to finish the movie series.

10. There are dragons and talking swords.

I mean . . . you didn’t think I wasn’t going to mention these, did you? Pffft, come on. Surely you know me by now. I don’t even know when my thing for dragons began, it’s been so long ago. And I’ve enjoyed talking swords since I was a teenager, at least. So they’re pretty deep-seated at this point. I’m sort of picky about my dragon books (because there are so many of them and not always done well). Though, I will always give a dragon book a chance, just the same. Because dragons. Duh!

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I feel sort of sad when people tell me it’s never happened to them. I think they just need to find the right book!

I agree with all of these. Here is my post-https://paigesofbook.blogspot.com/2021/07/top-ten-tuesday-eight-reasons-i-enjoy.html

Yes to all of these! Especially the dragons AND the books that feel like warm hugs. I agree, both are the best 🙂

Yes! Although, not gonna lie, if we could find a way to have dragons without reading, I’d be happy with that, too. I mean, I wouldn’t stop reading about dragons, obviously, but I’m just saying.

Love the list. Especially your second reason because how often can you have an adventure and not spill your tea?!

That’s the best sort of adventure, isn’t it? (Or at least it is for this introvert!)

Ironically, I live in an area where things didn’t really stop. There was very little we couldn’t do, because it’s so rural. I know a lot of people who weren’t that fortunate, though, and I’m so glad books were able to at least give them a taste of what life outside was like, way back when. xD

I enjoy films sometimes. But I definitely read more than watch movies. I’ve always had trouble focusing on them, and I always need to be doing something else at the same time just to be able to sit through one. I assume it’s an ADHD thing. xD

Yes, books are great movies for your brain. Here’s my list!

I love sarcastic narrators. I think that’s because I’m surrounded by sarcastic people and know how to deal with it.

You should check out the Magnus Chase series of books by Rick Riordan if you love talking swords and sarcastic characters.

I swear my first language was sarcasm. I didn’t even realize I was doing it until someone outside my family said something and I was like … wait, is that not just how people walk?! xD So I definitely get you with the whole being surrounded by it thing lol.

I’ve heard Magnus Chase is really good! I bought it for my daughter … who was less than impressed and hasn’t read it yet (because I haven’t convinced her that books are amazing yet). I’m definitely going to have to steal her copies and read them! Sounds like something I’ll love.

My husband is always amazed at all the random information I know just from reading. He’s less impressed that I remember XYZ fact from that book five years ago and not that he asked me to grab him something 30 seconds ago. xD But, you know, I walked out of the room and now the thought is gone haha.

Ah, I love these! We do have a lot of reasons in common, but I love that you pointed out how reading can connect us with loved ones too. (I always swear that I fell for my husband when he started describing a favorite book to me.) And I love that you including getting scared to death too! Nothing like a terrifying horror novel to get the adrenaline flowing! My TTT

Funny how many of us fall for a significant other thanks to books. 😉

Bwahaha, I figured we’d have those in common! xD

I love that reading was such a bonding thing in your family. That’s a beautiful thing!

Happy TTT (on a Wednesday)!

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I loved this post! Maybe it’s the hyper-organized side of me, but I loved how this post was set up with the different reasons, alongside book recommendations that go along with the reasons! I was able to add a few books to my TBR from this post, so thank you!

Thank you so much! I hope you enjoy them when you get a chance to read them. 😀

I think seeing the words just helps me focus, whereas listening means I can tune it out easier. I’m good at tuning things out. It’s part of parenthood. xD

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“My favorite book is Roald Dahl ‘s Matilda. I think this work is suitable for children as well as adults. Matilda is a little girl with strange parents and a very mean principal. And then, one day, a good teacher shows up at school who treats all the students, including Matilda, with awe. When I was little, I was sure it was just a fairy tale. But now, after rereading this book to refresh my memory, I realize that the book has adult overtones. Matilda is the personification of all the children of the world who face the hostility of adults who should not have been parents or educators.”

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“I would like to finish my essay about the book “Three Comrades” with the advice: read, look for a moral in any work, and you can become a good person.

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I have a little library of my own at home. Now I have fairy tales, comics, and books on geography, science, history, and literature – all of which are presented in the form of a story.

I love my books. Whenever I have a holiday, I pick up any book from the shelf and read it. I get so engrossed in the book that I often to eat. My mother has to yell at me to have my lunch.

I often borrow books from my friends and my school library. Books hold a great charm for me. Some of my friends to have started enjoying a reading book as much as I do. You know why the top students of your class are clever; it is because he has the habit of reading his textbooks. I think teacher teach to grow interested in a subject and give basic ideas about any subject.

But it is the reading which brings perfection about the subject of concern. I think reading increases the intelligence level of a child by reading the great books and this practice push the whole world towards new discovery, innovation, and creativity.

I achieved a lot of knowledge by reading various books and newspapers. I usually read the great magazine authorized by the government, it is because it has content of toppers of the society. Read a book which is inspire you, read a book which gives you a chance to select the best path of life, there are either a love story, failure story, religious books, successive person’s books, history book etc.

Most of my relatives and friends know that the best birthday gift that they can give me books and with their generosity I have over a hundred books in my personal library now.

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Growing up my parents didn’t have much, but what they did have—no matter where we lived—was a library.

Hand-me-down furniture, pots, pans, cutlery, and other kitchen miscellany found on our neighbors' stoops would come and go—discarded as easily as they were discovered—every time we moved. And we moved often.

But as wobbly chairs and half-functioning toasters were left behind on the street—perhaps for some other hapless family to obtain—we would lovingly pack milk crates filled with books into the bed of my father's old, blue, rusted-out Toyota pickup, like literature-filled mega-blocks or a real-life game of literary Tetris. The library was never left behind.

No wonder I started to view books as precious items. Pieces of magic, worthy of burden. To be carried from place to place, honored above all other earthly possessions. Here they were, hardcover classics: The Catcher in the Rye , Moby-Dick , Little Women , The Great Gatsby , and every Mark Twain book you can imagine. The Complete Works of Shakespeare (that one usually got its own milkcrate), The Bluest Eye , Don Quixote , and Things Fall Apart . At least one copy of every book by James Joyce—my father’s favorite—but then on to Austen, Brontë (take your pick), Tolstoy, Tolkien, Dostoevsky, Plath, Kesey, Kerouac, and a rather beautiful edition of Invisible Man . And that barely scratches the surface. Big, important, majestic hardcover books, moved from shitty apartment to shitty apartment, like royalty carried about town in a golden litter, albeit one with wheels and a gas tank my parents could only afford to fill a quarter-of-a-tank at a time. In one apartment, my father went so far as to build the books a throne, meticulously crafting shelves from wood, which he laid into the very walls of the building (a home improvement that would later cost us our security deposit). My parents didn't care. It was worth it. They had spent their entire lives collecting these books. What was money, something they never had much of anyway, versus a gleaming display for their life's work—collected and curated and painstakingly maintained?

Years later, when eBooks first appeared and "the end of print" was erroneously declared—visions of Kindle kiosks replacing beloved bookstores dancing in the heads of publishing executives and bean counters alike—I rested easy, remembering my parents’ library. Would they have traded in their gorgeous assemblage of classics for some beige, boring desktop computer? Not on your life. They valued books as bastions of knowledge and imagination, sure, but also, books as a point of pride, their spines on display as a way of saying, "Here. Have you read this? I have." Or, almost certainly more importantly, "Here. Have you read this? This is me." Book covers held out on public transportation, significantly, as if they were calling cards. "Does this interest you? It interests me. Do I interest you? I hope so."

To put it even more simplistically, books as fetish objects, to be collected and put on a pedestal like so many Pokémon.

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My parents instilled their all-consuming love of literature in me. Eventually, book by book, I too grew up and became a poor adult. Just as they had been.

Only I never had a library. My parents' tendency to move from apartment to apartment in the city we lived in (Boston) and eventually the state (Massachusetts) was also instilled in me, except I used the entire country to try and assuage my itchy feet. Washington D.C. Philadelphia. San Francisco. New York City. Usually making the move with nothing more than a bag over my shoulder, as I lacked even a rusted out old truck or any vehicle to speak of—no way of carrying a wealth of written knowledge by mostly dead people from place to place. But my obsession with moving, my obsession with impermanence, led to another obsession:

The paperback.

Credit where credit's due, my father introduced me to paperbacks early in life. There were children's books, of course, and a used, beat-up copy of The Hobbit my father read to me when I was young, but it was the Collected Works of Breece D'J Pancake —one of the first "adult" books he gave me, probably around the age of ten or eleven, that really made me fall in love with paperbacks. “Here, I think you’d like this,” he said. And he was right.

I would carry the book around with me, reading it while I waited for the school bus or in the back of math class, hiding it under my desk. Here was a book filled with stories that reminded me of my own life, that I could take with me anywhere. Nothing fantastical, or heavy, or overly important about it. Simply a book that I could grip in the palm of my adolescent hand, fingers tearing at the cover absentmindedly as I was enveloped in Breece’s stories.

I tend to be hard on my things. I still am. When I read a paperback book, it’s like I’m wrestling with it. Soon the cover is torn and the pages are dog-eared and there’s a giant seam down the middle where I folded the book in half so I can stuff it into my back pocket, or jacket pocket, or perhaps a friend’s mailbox, if I think they might like the book as much as I have.

Hardcover books are like anchors. Don’t get me wrong, I understand the appeal. This is an important book. You should sit in a big, overstuffed chair and read it under a bright lamp, preferably by some roaring hearth, mayhap with a pipe and smoking jacket.

But a paperback is built for adventure. Paperbacks are light, and—as already mentioned numerous times in this essay—foldable. If you forget one at the bar or by the swimming hole, you will not mourn, for the book will be found by somebody else, and if you haven’t finished it before you lose it, don’t worry—you can buy a new one for the price of a drink or two, not an entire meal.

This is why you find paperbacks in hostels and traveler’s hotels. Take a book, leave a book. Sometimes they’re covered in writing (because nobody thinks twice about writing in a paperback), the stranger’s thoughts there to guide you, or infuriate you, or confound you on the off-chance they have poor penmanship.

Or perhaps it’s not a stranger. Perhaps it’s relative. A friend. Your mother or father. A treasure trove of thoughts from a dead loved one, who you never thought you’d hear from again.

I wish I could tell you now that I have a library of stained and tattered paperbacks to match my parents' formidable hardcovers, but that would be a lie. Because I barely have a library at all—although, I must admit, as I grow older, I’m beginning to grow the slightest bit of moss, my parents’ habits slowly becoming my own. Still I fight against the urge, because when I finish a book I love—and the truth is I love most of them—I give it away. To a friend. To a colleague. Sometimes to a stranger (or at least I like to think so when I lose them, as I so often do). For me, books are meant to be shared. Circulated. You don’t own a paperback; you have it for a little while and then it moves on with its life. The best you can do is help it find a good home.

But like I said, I’m beginning to pick up my parents’ habits, as most children eventually do. No matter how strongly I tried to fight against them in my younger days—both the good and the bad. Friends over the years have given me first editions of beloved books, items that demand to be respected. Treated properly. Well-bred horses that deserve a hay-laden paddock, not wild horses on open plains with wind in their manes. I now have a first edition of that paperback my father gave me all those years ago, The Collected Works of Breece D'J Pancake . So I keep it displayed ceremoniously next to a few potted plants. I like that it reminds me to think of the person who gave it to me. I like that it feels important. An anchor on my own terms.

So sure, I’m accumulating a library now that I am fully an adult. But let’s be honest: I picked this particular habit up from my parents long before I’m willing to admit. Not the library, per se. But I see now how they treated hardcover books as fetish objects, and that I have simply done the same with paperbacks. One to be kept, one to be shared. Two sides of the same coin. One distinguished and shining. The other dirty and banged up. One heads, one tails. But the truth is, a coin is a coin. Each one has value.

So if you see me at the bar finishing a book, or closing the cover by a river somewhere, or perhaps on a rocky beach on the Atlantic, ask me if I’m finished, and paperback or not, I’ll almost certainly hand it to you. I don't want to carry it home. I’ll quote my father without even realizing it.

“Here. Have you read this? I think you might like it.”

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Reading develops our brains and gives us the ability to understand life in a much better fashion. Besides, there’s a lot of room for grammar and language development. When you read a lot, you learn new words all the time.

Not sure how many readers will agree but I firmly believe books can go more in-depth than a movie can. When you read a script then watch the movie more details are added that would not be there in a movie. I read two books simultaneously (one fiction and one nonfiction) every four weeks or so, which adds up to about 25 books per year.

As a rule, I always read at least a few pages every day. Often it is a lot more than that, and again at times, there’s a block. I squeeze reading in whenever I can — primarily during travelling, after waking up, in between classes and then of course throughout the weekend.

I read books primarily to learn, grow, and feed my curiosities and love for good stories. This means that I mostly read non-fiction books about great people, lifestyle, and business/marketing, and then, of course, there’s a great deal of multi-genre reading. My criteria for picking up a book is very simple

A. I should need it or B. It should seem like an amazing book (good looks, great blurb, great or mysterious title etc).

While I certainly learn a lot through academics, I for a fact know that books are a gateway to deeper knowledge.

Now even though a good amount of information is out there on the internet, my personality is best-suited to a deep exploration of a limited number of subjects, rather than casually flipping from topic to topic. Therefore I greatly prefer reading full books over magazines, online articles, or any other type of micro-content.

Also, it makes the reading experience tangible. Something that I can hold on to.

I always read with a pencil in hand so I can bracket key passages as I go. I honestly developed this habit in my final year of school. I was always interested in writing short little creative pieces but I couldn’t understand how to carve my way into the industry. So I started reading and I fell in love with it. I later discovered that book blogging was a thing and that I could do it all for free sitting at home. That way I could read and learn about the current trends in the publishing world plus the books would be sent to me without me having to spend a fortune over them. What’s better? Reviewing meant I’d be responsible for carefully reading through the books and analysing the good and the bad. So this made reading my habit. I almost felt like a social entrepreneur.

After finishing each book, I go back through the marked sections and manually write out a ‘2-pager’ of my key takeaways (the good points and the bad points) in a diary. I have been doing this for the past 3 years, which means I now have well over 100 one-page reviews of the books I’ve read. This makes it easy and convenient to go back and reference the points that resonated with me most. And then, of course, that’s what the books are mostly sent to me for, except some are sent for interviews and promotions.

I always feel a sense of satisfaction and accomplishment after finishing the three-step process of reading, analysing, and reviewing books for my blog posts. It is at that point that I feel truly ‘done’ with a book and ready to move on to the next one.

This amount of effort might seem crazy to some people, especially since I am not being paid. But reading books in this focused manner gives me so much joy precisely because it is what I want to be doing all the time. Even after a long day, I find it energizing to take on this additional learning during my ‘me’ time because it is how I choose to spend the time other than writing.

With my hobby and love for books, I was able to network with new people, be they fictional or real. It also opened up newer avenues for me. Book clubs and bookstagram community especially are my favourites.

There is nothing like getting lost in a book to make time fly. You can be in a different world other than the real one. You can always learn something new by reading books. It will help you see different sides to situations and some of it is relatable. It shows you a different perspective. And again remember, Books will always be there for you unless you send them away. So they’re better friends than human beings are!

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One cloudless Saturday morning, last February, I sat alone on a bench, in Long Island City, waiting for the bus. The street felt artificially still, like a stage set. I had forgotten to listen to my boyfriend tell me where he was going—to the office, maybe? I was distracted by the book I was reading: “ The Idiot ,” by Elif Batuman , in which the main character, Selin , is in her freshman year at Harvard and in love. It’s “an amazing sight, someone you’re infatuated with trying to fish something out of a jeans pocket,” Selin thinks at one point. And later: “It felt insane to make a plan to do something after I was going to meet with Ivan—like making plans for after my own death.”

In March, I was in Galveston, in a rental apartment. Outside, it was bright and windy, and the ocean was the color of chocolate milk. The balcony door I’d propped open kept slamming closed. I was in bed in the middle of the day, reading “ Too Much and Not the Mood ,” a collection of essays by Durga Chew-Bose. The women she loves, Chew-Bose writes, “never fare well when they run into someone and are forced to reenter the world by speaking in banalities.” They’re calibrated, like her attention, toward intimacy. “Your hot friend on a balmy summer night telling you about some good news in her life is—How do I put this without sounding absurd? It’s barometric.”

In April, I walked past the Sunday crowd exiting the Creole service at the church near my apartment, and then went looking for a passage in Patricia Lockwood ’s memoir, “ Priestdaddy .” Lockwood, who grew up in Missouri and Ohio, describes her elementary-school classmates as having “fragile walks and pink pinpoints on their knees and knuckles like outrageous emeralds.” Thousands of tons of nuclear waste had been scattered in the topsoil near Coldwater Creek. “But we could be cured of anything, we knew,” Lockwood writes. To love God is to be sure of it. To “believe with that kind of wholeheartedness, I can describe only from a distance, as you might describe a city on fire,” she goes on. “It felt: like the axis of the earth exited through my feet. Like I had grown a steeple. Like getting stopped at the top of a Ferris wheel, alone in my seat and exhilarated, one sandal hanging off the tip of my toe.”

In May, I was writing a lot, feeling constantly uneasy, and the fragments in Sarah Manguso’s “ 300 Arguments ” made things simultaneously better and worse. “I don’t love writing; I love having a problem I believe I might someday write my way out of,” she writes. And directly above that fragment: “ I can’t believe this is happening , I thought the first time we fucked, fourteen years ago, and keep thinking. We married other people, had children. I still can’t believe it. I might never believe it.”

In June, I had jury duty. In line for the courthouse metal detector, I read Samantha Hunt’s short-story collection “ The Dark Dark ,” in which one character, new to motherhood, is “coursing with secret genes and hormones and proteins. My body made eyeballs and I have no idea how .” She locks her husband out of the house. Through a glass door, they stare at each other. “That’s something,” she thinks, “to be seen by another human, to be seen over all the years. That’s something, too. Love plus time.”

In July, I sat in a bakery and read Jenny Zhang’s “ Sour Heart ,” a book about family that’s also a book about how love and cruelty combine . A young woman remembers her desperately devoted grandmother, who “had only a third-grade education and was teaching herself characters so that she could write a book about her grandchildren. ‘The world needs to know about you two,’ she said.” The young woman recalls, “For a moment, I was moved. But I knew if either of us had any chance of growing up into the kind of people that other people in this world would want to know about, we had to leave her behind.”

In August, I stayed up late to read “ Afterglow ,” Eileen Myles’s memoir about her pit bull, Rosie , who spent several years on her deathbed, and looked, by the end of this physical decline, like a battered Teddy bear. My own dog is as big as I am and will live forever; I made her sit next to me on the couch. “You were always my boat,” Myles writes. “You brought me space and peace. I put you in the middle of my life and you never steered me wrong.”

In September, on an Acela train, I read “Her Body and Other Parties,” a collection of stories by Carmen Maria Machado . In one, the narrator gets gastric-bypass surgery, and starts to feel, while recovering, that something is haunting the house. Her three sisters, who’ve all had the same procedure, tell her that what she’s feeling is her joy, her inner beauty, her former shame set free to roam. One day, the narrator goes down to the basement and finds “a body with nothing it needs: no stomach or bones or mouth.” This flesh, the narrator realizes, will never leave her: “By loving me when I did not love her, by being abandoned by me, she has become immortal.”

In October, I read “ The Answers ,” a novel by Catherine Lacey. The protagonist, Mary, is hired into a “Girlfriend Experiment”: a harem of women who together comprise the perfect girlfriend for a rich, unsatisfied actor. (There’s an Emotional Girlfriend, an Anger Girlfriend, a Maternal Girlfriend.) One day, Mary takes MDMA on the job. “ Love is a compromise for only getting to be one person ,” she tells the actor, each cell of her body thrumming.

In November, on a flight across the Atlantic, I read “ Spineless ,” by Juli Berwald, a book about jellyfish—creatures that I had always thought of as solitary, floating around in a private alien reverie. But until we started dumping large quantities of trash into the sea, Berwald writes, jellyfish were “entire ecosystems.” Creatures clung to them the way that they now cling to nets and garbage. Jellyfish let tiny amphipods lay eggs in their interiors, let baby lobsters hitch rides on their translucent glowing bells.

In December, on a recommendation from a new friend, I picked up a yellowed copy of “ Love Story ,” Ruth McKenney ’s memoir from 1950. In the first sentence, McKenney announces that she married her husband twelve days after they met. “I had a vague, nervous feeling that I had gone out of my mind, though I did not care,” she adds. By page 281, their idyllic marriage has turned “lumpy and irascible.” McKenney writes, “We supposed—and even said, bitterly—the bloom was off our love, forever. But a tree can blossom more than once.”

After the holidays, I got incredibly sick of talking to people, and decided to reread Claire Messud’s “ The Emperor’s Children .” In the novel, Danielle is desperate to spend a night with Murray, her best friend’s father, with whom she’s been conducting a clandestine affair. She visits Murray’s country house, watches his daughter and wife make pies and talk about the weather, and feels electrified by the sensation that “something was about to happen. Because how could it not? So much emotion was pent up in her that surely it must—like telepathy, like ghosts—move furniture, people, events.” She pauses outside Murray’s bedroom, and tries to tempt him while he’s manning the grill. “Later, by herself, she sat at the table and watched the fireflies flicker across the lawn in the dusk, and breathed the damp blue air,” Messud writes. “Murray, fetching the grill tongs to be washed, paused a moment behind her in the dark, and placed his hand full on her crown like a warm cap.”

In January, I met a friend at a bar and learned that she had just reread the book, too. It was the third or fourth time for both of us, and yet we’d both looked up the same new word at the end of this chapter: “He said nothing, and was gone; but it was all she had wanted; benison.”

“Benison,” my friend said. “What a perfect word!”

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ESSAY: Why I Love to Read and to Write by Gail Dayton

Last winter, I posted that I would love to hear from readers, writers, bloggers about why they read, write and blog. Gail Dayton, author of the new book, New Blood , offers up this personal account.

I love to read. No, I looooove to read. And I read fast. I read about 300 books a year (counting re-reads). So when I saw the Ja(y)nes offer to post essays on reading, writing and the love thereof, I got to thinking-‘WHY do I love reading and writing so much.

It’s the stories. My cousin Diane taught me to read when I was just four, and from that moment, I’ve been caught up in the worlds opened up to me by books. But I think my addiction to story must go earlier than that, because my mother likes to talk about taking me to see Bambi with my multitude of cousins when I was three. (Mama is the youngest of four sisters, each of whom had four kids, except for Aunt Bettye, who had six…The family Thanksgiving is massive.) For weeks afterward, my invisible friend Bambi went everywhere with me. Hey, at least Bambi was a deer and didn’t require his own plate at the dinner table, like the fella’s invisible friend Mister. (Mister got on a plane one day and flew to Chicago, never to be seen again.)

Stories fire my imagination and, for a little while, let me live in That world, instead of this-‘often boring-‘one. In the world of story, ANYTHING can happen.

Which is why I write. I still have invisible friends. No, really. TIME magazine quoted researchers who discovered that fiction writers’ relationships with their characters is virtually identical with a child’s relationship with his invisible friends. We know they’re not real. Honest. We do know. But we still have no control over them. They go off and do stuff just because they want to, and we have no way to stop them.

Back to the topic. I don’t write just because I get to hang out with invisible friends. I write because I get to tell stories. And in those stories, ANYTHING can happen. Dragons are real. Soul mates can find their destiny. People can recover from tragedy. Even all of the above. And, despite the fact that characters can go their own way, I can still tell the story I want to tell. (The characters usually know better than I do.)

I started wanting to tell stories MY way back in-‘junior high, I think. That’s when I inherited a bunch of my dad’s old books. Copies of Robin Hood in archaic English. The original Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs. I literally read the cover off Tarzan . The only problem I saw was that Tarzan didn’t have a sister. Jane really didn’t cut it as a place-holder for the role I wanted to play in the book. I wanted to live in the jungle too. So I made up one.

I graduated from fan fiction sometime in college, eventually learned to finish a book, and here I am. I still love to read, and I still love to write (even though these days it sometimes can feel like work). Because it’s all about the story.

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25 Modern Love Essays to Read if You Want to Laugh, Cringe and Cry

The popular column, which began in 2004, has become a podcast, a book and an Amazon Prime streaming series. Here are some of its greatest hits.

By Daniel Jones

Whether you’re new to Modern Love or a longtime fan, we think you’ll enjoy this collection of some of our most memorable essays. You’ll find some of our most read and most shared of all time, and others that really got readers talking (and tweeting, and sharing). We present, in no particular order, the quirky, the profound, the head scratching and the heartbreaking. (A handful of these essays and dozens more of our most memorable columns can also be found in the Modern Love anthology .)

To keep up on all things Modern Love — our weekly essays, podcast episodes and batches of Tiny Love Stories, along with other relationship-based reads from The Times — sign up for Love Letter , a weekly email. And check out the “Modern Love” television series , based on this column, on Amazon Prime Video.

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After her peaceful marriage quietly dissolves, a woman comes to appreciate the vitality of conflict and confrontation.

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He didn’t care that I was 39 and hadn’t had a serious boyfriend in eight years.

3. Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me

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A young woman seeks answers to her sexual orientation online, where the endless quizzes she takes deliver whatever label she wants.

4. First I Met My Children. Then My Girlfriend. They’re Related.

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A former sperm donor, searching online, finds both offspring and love.

5. What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage

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I wanted — needed — to nudge my husband a little closer to perfect.

6. The 12-Hour Goodbye That Started Everything

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A spurned woman confronts the question: When you lose love, should you even try to get over it?

7. During a Night of Casual Sex, Urgent Messages Go Unanswered

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On one of the most consequential evenings of his life, a young man still finding himself wishes he had picked up the phone.

8. Let’s Meet Again in Five Years

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They thought college was too soon for lifelong love, so they scheduled their next date for a little later — 60 months.

9. My Body Doesn’t Belong to You

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A young woman who finds herself being catcalled, followed and grabbed at wonders why some men seem to think a female body is public property.

10. Making a Marriage Magically Tidy

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At her husband’s suggestion (and with the wisdom of Marie Kondo), a recovering slob discovers the sexiness of cleanliness.

11. Loved and Lost? It’s O.K., Especially if You Win

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It’s O.K. to fall deeply for one loser after another. It’s O.K. to show up at a guy’s house with a dozen roses and declare your undying affection.

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It’s unrealistic to expect your spouse to forever remain the same person you fell in love with.

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He acknowledged he was gay and left his wife, but he kept returning home for their monthly ritual.

14. In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses

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15. What Sleeping With Married Men Taught Me About Infidelity

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A divorced woman seeking no-strings-attached liaisons learns a sobering lesson about men and marriage.

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During a taxi ride home a co-worker makes a surprising request.

17. On Tinder, Off Sex

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Living a life where secondary abstinence isn’t exactly a first choice.

18. No Labels, No Drama, Right?

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The winner of the 2015 Modern Love college essay contest, who was then a sophomore at Columbia University, writes about her generation’s reluctance to define relationships.

19. Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear

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“I don’t love you anymore,” my husband said, but I survived the sucker punch.

20. You May Want to Marry My Husband

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After learning she doesn’t have long to live, a woman composes a dating profile for the man she will leave behind.

21. Somewhere Inside, a Path to Empathy

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A man learns to deal with Asperger’s syndrome, with the help of his wife.

22. My Husband Is Now My Wife

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He took the first step in becoming a woman: surgery to help his face look more feminine.

23. Would My Heart Outrun Its Pursuer?

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How might a woman love the millstone I believed myself to be?

24. When Eve and Eve Bit the Apple

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A Christian woman’s identity is challenged by her love for church and another woman.

25. To Fall in Love With Anyone, Do This

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What happens if you decide that falling in love is not something that happens to you, but something that you do?

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Books are referred to as a man’s best friend . They are very beneficial for mankind and have helped it evolve. There is a powerhouse of information and knowledge. Books offer us so many things without asking for anything in return. Books leave a deep impact on us and are responsible for uplifting our mood.

This is why we suggest children read books from an early age to gain knowledge. The best part about books is that there are various types of books. One can read any type to gain different types of knowledge. Reading must be done by people of all ages. It not only widens our thinking but also enhances our vocabulary.

Different Genres of Books

There are different genres of books available for book readers. Every day, thousands of books are released in the market ranging from travel books to fictional books. We can pick any book of our interest to expand our knowledge and enjoy the reading experience.

Firstly, we have travel books, which tell us about the experience of various travelers. They introduce us to different places in the world without moving from our place. It gives us traveling tips which we can use in the future. Then, we have history books which state historical events. They teach about the eras and how people lived in times gone by.

Furthermore, we have technology books that teach us about technological developments and different equipment. You can also read fashion and lifestyle books to get up to date with the latest trends in the fashion industry.

Most importantly, there are self-help books and motivational books . These books help in the personality development of an individual. They inspire us to do well in life and also bring a positive change in ourselves. Finally, we have fictional books. They are based on the writer’s imagination and help us in enhancing our imagination too. They are very entertaining and keep us intrigued until the very end.

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There are not one but various advantages of reading books. To begin with, it improves our knowledge on a variety of subjects. Moreover, it makes us wiser. When we learn different things, we learn to deal with them differently too. Similarly, books also keep us entertained. They kill our boredom and give us great company when we are alone.

Furthermore, books help us to recognize our areas of interest. They also determine our career choice to a great extent. Most importantly, books improve our vocabulary . We learn new words from it and that widens our vocabulary. In addition, books boost our creativity. They help us discover a completely new side.

In other words, books make us more fluent in languages. They enhance our writing skills too. Plus, we become more confident after the knowledge of books. They help us in debating, public speaking , quizzes and more.

In short, books give us a newer perspective and gives us a deeper understanding of things. It impacts our personality positively as well. Thus, we see how books provide us with so many benefits. We should encourage everyone to read more books and useless phones.

FAQs on Books

Q.1 State the different genres of books.

A.1 Books come in different genres. Some of them are travel books, history books, technology books, fashion and lifestyle books, self-help books, motivational books, and fictional books.

Q.2 Why are books important?

A.2 Books are of great importance to mankind. They enhance our knowledge and vocabulary. They keep us entertained and also widen our perspective. This, in turn, makes us more confident and wise.

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I love my books. Whenever I have a holiday, I pick up any book from the shelf and read it.

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Esmé Hogeveen One of the major themes in the collection is fascination – the way that art or writing can hook you and expose you to ideas or perspectives that may take time to understand. I’m curious whether selecting pieces for this collection sparked any fascination about how your writing practice has evolved?

Maggie Nelson During the pandemic, Tala Madani and I had a conversation for BOMB , in which she said something that I really love. I’d been talking about how her paintings still made me feel like magic was possible and, I’m paraphrasing, but she said something like: ‘It’s not that artists go around in a magic frame of mind. It’s that life is so often not magic that, when magic does appear, you must pay attention.’ What’s exciting is that paying attention can spark more magic.

I believe a lot of writing about the art of criticism engages with this. I’m thinking, for example, about the protagonist in my friend Ben Lerner’s novel, Leaving the Atocha Station [2011]. A lot of the time things don’t move us even if we’re hoping to be moved. As lovers of art or literature, we sometimes act like we’re always being moved, but I think the feedback loop is much stranger. I think that agreeing to pay attention – for example, by writing an essay about an artist’s work – creates a shift, because you have to feel a spark to begin with. Writing about art involves re-engaging with the artwork, taking notes, following your interest, talking to the artist and looking for the connections. The whole process creates more enlivenment; I find it very life-affirming.

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EH I was intrigued by your conversation with your friend, the writer Eileen Myles, in which you discuss letting yourselves play dumb. Can you explain what this entails?

MN I don’t know if it’s playing dumb, exactly, or just letting ourselves be. My point is that you can have a PhD in art history and still wander into a gallery and think: ‘What’s that object doing on the floor?’ I’ve always loved Gertrude Stein’s line: ‘If you enjoy it, you understand it.’ That’s the kind of playing dumb I’m talking about – being open and saying: ‘I don’t get this, but I enjoy it,’ or, ‘I enjoy this and I don’t need to get it.’ In a broader sense, I think playing or being dumb is important for maintaining a Buddhist-like beginner’s mindset.

EH As your profile has expanded, I’m curious how your relationship to your readers has evolved.

MN I don’t think about readers very much because I’m trying to share local acts of paying attention. If those acts are worthwhile, then they’ll bear fruit for someone else; if they aren’t, then they won’t, and that’s fine, too. In my experience, a lot of the discourse has underestimated the reader. I dedicated Like Love to Eileen, who I’ve learned so much from. Eileen talks about how they brought their own audience into being. They didn’t write for a pre-existing audience but by identifying, at that time, as a feminist dyke within an avant-garde realm, they helped create a context. Years later, they were surprised and happy when a new generation of young queers received their work differently than their contemporaries did. I think readership, temporality, being true to your own acts of attention and letting that be contagious is more interesting than writing for a specific audience or thinking about the reader in the same moment that you’re writing.

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EH In ‘Porousness, Perversity, Pharmacopornographia: On Matthew Barney’s OTTO Trilogy’, you break down the meanings of subversion, transgression and perversion. Does your work draw on one of these tactics more than others, and is there one that you’d like to pursue strategically in future work?

MN That’s a great question. I would guess this is true for Matthew as well, but I don’t think an artist usually plans to be transgressive or perverted. Like many aspects of art and interpretation, that’s usually a post-game rather than a pre-game decision. Perversion involves a certain unconscious labour that I think is literally not plannable.

Subversion is about what somebody else says you’ve done and not what you set out to do. And transgression – which I hope is the theme of the collection – for transgression’s sake is not really the core of my interest, although there are people I’m very interested in who others might regard as transgressive. I get at this in an essay on Hervé Guibert, where I talk about people saying he set out to shock the bourgeoisie. A lot of people find something shocking when it’s a report from a milieu that’s not their own – all they see is an intention to shock because they are shocked. And, of course, there are some people who set out to transgress for transgression’s sake: sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn’t, but I don’t put very much stock in artistic intention.

I’m interested in what comes out. That’s why I wrote about the argument between Schneemann and her friend, the poet Clayton Eshleman, over how they saw her work Up to and Including Her Limits [1973–76]. Carolee imagined the piece – in which she was naked, rope-bound and swung around the space drawing on paper affixed to the gallery walls – as an act of liberation whereas Eshleman could only see a woman in bondage. If you look at the piece, I think both things are true: neither of them is entirely right. That’s probably true of most art, and that’s what makes it interesting, but that doesn’t mean it’s not painful. It was painful for Carolee: she was furious. But that’s why we have an unconscious and that’s why we make art, because we’re not in control. I think that’s true of every book of mine. You’re in control of everything you can control and then you turn it over to the universe.

Maggie Nelson’s Like Love: Essays and Conversations is published by Fern Press (UK) and Graywolf Press (US)

Main image: Maggie Nelson, Like Love: Essays and Conversations , 2024, book cover (detail). Courtesy: Fern Press

Esmé Hogeveen is a writer based between Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal. Her writing has appeared in Another Gaze: Feminist Film Journal , Artforum , Border Crossings , The Brooklyn Rail , Canadian Art and cléo .

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11 Books and Movies That Inspire a Relationship With Nature

Posted: May 27, 2024 | Last updated: May 27, 2024

<p><em>In the Shondaland series </em><strong>The Novelty of Nature</strong><em>, we’re digging into the power of natural places and the wellness benefits of embracing the elements. From camping tips and safari stories to eye-opening tales about the environment to inspiring ways to reclaim your relationship with nature, these stories show it’s never been a better time to get lost in the great outdoors.</em></p><p>Day to day, it’s easy to think about what’s happening inside our own four walls — or right outside of them. At this very moment, though, there are entire worlds living below the surface, up in the sky, and in lands far away.</p><p>From the Korean countryside to the Indian Ocean, flowers are blooming, and ecosystems are thriving. Classic nature reads like <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Walden-Henry-David-Thoreau/dp/1619493918?tag=syndication-20&ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C2134.g.44131329%5Bsrc%7Cmsn-us"><em>Walden</em></a> and popular films like <a href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74968X1553576&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.disneyplus.com%2Fvideo%2F83bbd786-ff66-4440-b5e1-021f9ceccaa9%3FdistributionPartner%3Dgoogle&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.shondaland.com%2Finspire%2Fg44131329%2F11-books-and-movies-that-inspire-a-relationship-with-nature%2F"><em>Free Solo</em></a> are regularly pointed to as works that traverse places many of us have never been, but there are many lesser-known stories and storytellers who cross the planet — or even stay in their backyard — in search of making the unknown known.</p><p>Whether it’s on Saint Helena Island or on the Pacific Crest Trail, or pulling back the curtain on the animal kingdom or the plant kingdom, nature writing and films remind us to look at the great outdoors differently, and there’s no shortage of awe to be had. Here’s a collection of some of our favorite books and movies that encourage readers and audiences to take a walk on the wild side — or simply appreciate it.</p>

In the Shondaland series The Novelty of Nature , we’re digging into the power of natural places and the wellness benefits of embracing the elements. From camping tips and safari stories to eye-opening tales about the environment to inspiring ways to reclaim your relationship with nature, these stories show it’s never been a better time to get lost in the great outdoors.

Day to day, it’s easy to think about what’s happening inside our own four walls — or right outside of them. At this very moment, though, there are entire worlds living below the surface, up in the sky, and in lands far away.

From the Korean countryside to the Indian Ocean, flowers are blooming, and ecosystems are thriving. Classic nature reads like Walden and popular films like Free Solo are regularly pointed to as works that traverse places many of us have never been, but there are many lesser-known stories and storytellers who cross the planet — or even stay in their backyard — in search of making the unknown known.

Whether it’s on Saint Helena Island or on the Pacific Crest Trail, or pulling back the curtain on the animal kingdom or the plant kingdom, nature writing and films remind us to look at the great outdoors differently, and there’s no shortage of awe to be had. Here’s a collection of some of our favorite books and movies that encourage readers and audiences to take a walk on the wild side — or simply appreciate it.

<p><strong>$14.99</strong></p><p>Be prepared to be cracked open by this moving, honest account of writer Cheryl Strayed’s 1,100-mile solo hike at the age of 22 along the Pacific Crest Trail. Propelled by sheer willpower after her mother died and her marriage dissipated, Strayed set off on the physically and mentally taxing journey with no “experience or training” but was healed by nature in the process. The memoir was selected for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon, so you know it’s good.</p>

1) Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Be prepared to be cracked open by this moving, honest account of writer Cheryl Strayed’s 1,100-mile solo hike at the age of 22 along the Pacific Crest Trail. Propelled by sheer willpower after her mother died and her marriage dissipated, Strayed set off on the physically and mentally taxing journey with no “experience or training” but was healed by nature in the process. The memoir was selected for Oprah’s Book Club 2.0 and made into an Oscar-nominated film starring Reese Witherspoon, so you know it’s good.

<p><strong>$13.25</strong></p><p>Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay collection is a masterful exploration of the power of nature and environmental regeneration (how some plants and animals have the ability to naturally restore damaged or missing cells, tissues, organs, and body parts). The Native American botanist and professor of environmental and forest biology weaves in the wisdom passed down from her lineage of Potawatomi elders to highlight how nature is our greatest teacher. Who knew the plant kingdom was so ripe for life lessons?</p>

2) Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay collection is a masterful exploration of the power of nature and environmental regeneration (how some plants and animals have the ability to naturally restore damaged or missing cells, tissues, organs, and body parts). The Native American botanist and professor of environmental and forest biology weaves in the wisdom passed down from her lineage of Potawatomi elders to highlight how nature is our greatest teacher. Who knew the plant kingdom was so ripe for life lessons?

<p>Bong's most recent film prior to <em>Parasite </em>was this 2017 Netflix original, a dark satire examining corporate relations with animals, specifically here a genetically-engineered 'superpig' made specifically with the purpose of being eaten. Just like <em>Parasite, </em>much of what's here is an allegory for a larger social point, but the story is gripping and the visuals are stunning. And the cast? Yeah, with Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, and even Choi Woo-shik (who you'll recognize as the son from <em>Parasite</em>), you're definitely in good hands. </p><p><a class="body-btn-link" href="https://www.netflix.com/title/80091936">Stream <em>Okja </em>Here</a></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjCebKn4iic">See the original post on Youtube</a></p>

Equal parts heartwarming and heart-wrenching, this film — directed by Oscar-winner Bong Joon Ho and starring Seo-hyun Ahn, plus familiar names like Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun, and Lily Collins — follows the story of a young girl named Mija who befriends a pig named Okja and goes on a mission to save her. The depiction of the relationship between humans and animals is thought-provoking and deeply touching, and the gorgeous visual portrait of the lush Korean countryside is captivating.

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<p>The 1991 independent film, which was written, directed, and co-produced by Julie Dash, follows three generations of Gullah women living on Saint Helena Island in 1902. Not only was it the first feature film directed by an African American woman distributed theatrically in the United States, but Arthur Jafa’s cinematography capturing the beauty of coastal life won the top cinematography prize at Sundance that year. The stunning film was later chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdMxR2M_ddM">See the original post on Youtube</a></p>

4) Daughters of the Dust

The 1991 independent film, which was written, directed, and co-produced by Julie Dash, follows three generations of Gullah women living on Saint Helena Island in 1902. Not only was it the first feature film directed by an African American woman distributed theatrically in the United States, but Arthur Jafa’s cinematography capturing the beauty of coastal life won the top cinematography prize at Sundance that year. The stunning film was later chosen by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.”

<p><a class="body-btn-link" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004D0A6O8?tag=syndication-20&ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C2141.g.43442547%5Bsrc%7Cmsn-us">Shop Now</a></p><p>If you liked <em>Earth</em>, you won't want to miss this documentary. Explore marine life in the planet's five oceans, discover the impact of human activity on the environment, and quickly change your own habits (goodbye, plastic straws!). </p><p><em>$4, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004D0A6O8?tag=syndication-20&ascsubtag=%5Bartid%7C2141.g.43442547%5Bsrc%7Cmsn-us">amazon.com</a></em></p><p><strong>RELATED: <a href="https://www.redbookmag.com/life/mom-kids/g14762184/best-kids-movies/">16 of the Best Kids' Movies of All Time</a></strong></p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXLbQrK6cXw">See the original post on Youtube</a></p>

Disney Nature’s revered 2009 documentary is the ultimate majestic excursion into the deep blue in just 1 hour and 24 minutes. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan, the film takes viewers on an epic adventure following the migration of whales, racing great white sharks, and dolphins at play. Dipping into each of the planet’s five oceans, the journey is truly jaw-dropping and encourages viewers to appreciate the vastness of the ocean and the awe-inducing wonders and life that lie beneath its surface.

<p><strong>$25.39</strong></p><p>“Black poets have long had a tradition of incorporating the natural world into their work, although nature writing is a genre that historically hasn’t been counted as one in which they have participated,” according to the book’s synopsis. In this 432-page anthology, Camille T. Dungy selects 180 poems from 93 African American poets that provide unique perspectives on the great outdoors, the wild, and more. The collection includes such acclaimed writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Phillis Wheatley, Sterling Brown, and other writers who lived during Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and other time periods.</p>

6) Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry

“Black poets have long had a tradition of incorporating the natural world into their work, although nature writing is a genre that historically hasn’t been counted as one in which they have participated,” according to the book’s synopsis. In this 432-page anthology, Camille T. Dungy selects 180 poems from 93 African American poets that provide unique perspectives on the great outdoors, the wild, and more. The collection includes such acclaimed writers as Gwendolyn Brooks, Rita Dove, Phillis Wheatley, Sterling Brown, and other writers who lived during Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Movement, and other time periods.

<p>The novel <em>Life of Pi </em>was thought to be an unfilmable book, but Ang Lee begged to differ with this sweeping, visually stunning work. It’s not a strict fantasy by traditional definitions, but it features an epic adventure, an unlikely bond forming between Pi and the tiger Richard Parker, and some strange moments of magical realism they encounter while floating through the ocean following a shipwreck.</p><a class="body-btn-link" href="https://tubitv.com/movies/100002324/life_of_pi?start=true&tracking=google-feed">Watch on Tubi</a> <a class="body-btn-link" href="https://go.redirectingat.com?id=74968X1553576&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.peacocktv.com%2Fwatch%2Fasset%2Fmovies%2Flife-of-pi%2Fa9d596fe-81ea-312d-86ce-99a4f04612b0&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.esquire.com%2Fentertainment%2Fmovies%2Fg35066935%2Fbest-fantasy-movies%2F">Watch on Peacock</a><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2WgseSrtls&ab_channel=20thCenturyStudios">See the original post on Youtube</a></p>

7) Life of Pi

Based on the 2001 novel by Yann Martel, this visually stunning adventure movie follows Pi, a young Indian boy who is stranded at sea with a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck. Taking place mostly on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean, the movie — which has recently been transformed into an equally breathtaking Broadway play — explores themes of survival, spirituality, the powerful bond between all living things, and the beauty, power, and danger of life and water.

<p><strong>$7.48</strong></p><p>Revisiting one of Dr. Seuss’ most beloved books turned <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/70208102?source=35">movie</a> is a treat at any age. Once banned in 1989 in a California school, the timeless and hopeful children’s book about a place devoid of flowers or trees reminds readers of the pleasure and beauty of living in a world with the towering green giants. The Lorax fights to protect his world by warning of the dangers of mindless human consumption of nature, encouraging kids to stand up for others, and urging people to treat the planet with kindness — but it also reaches through the page to remind us of the same things.</p>

8) The Lorax

Revisiting one of Dr. Seuss’ most beloved books turned movie is a treat at any age. Once banned in 1989 in a California school, the timeless and hopeful children’s book about a place devoid of flowers or trees reminds readers of the pleasure and beauty of living in a world with the towering green giants. The Lorax fights to protect his world by warning of the dangers of mindless human consumption of nature, encouraging kids to stand up for others, and urging people to treat the planet with kindness — but it also reaches through the page to remind us of the same things.

<p>Following the careers of famed French scientists Katia and Maurice Krafft, <em>Fire of Love</em> puts viewers up close with active volcanoes—one of Earth’s most destructive and near-apocalyptic forces. The two volcanologists bond over their shared obsession chasing these erupting behemoths as they collect samples of the bubbling and scorched earth that lit a flame for their love in the process. </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMArx64RBO4">See the original post on Youtube</a></p>

9) Fire of Love

For those seeking both a love story and a tale about nature, this 2022 indie documentary may be the perfect watch. The film — directed, co-written, and co-produced by Sara Dosa — trails the lives of the courageous volcanologists Katia and Maurice Krafft, a couple whose scientific discoveries changed the world’s understanding of nature. With a Rotten Tomato score of 98 percent, the striking documentary features archival footage of the duo chasing volcanoes across the planet and documenting what they find. The film won the Jonathan Oppenheim Editing Award when it premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival for its stunning collection of footage.

<p>Living in the modern world means that we’re all largely disconnected from nature in some sense. “Simon Barnes’ series of stories argues that it is not the land that should be rewilded, but us,” says a Herald Scotland review of the book. Like a loving family member speaking straight to you, this book offers new tips and techniques for readers to embrace the outdoors and enjoy nature — and even become part of it.</p>

10) Rewild Yourself

Living in the modern world means that we’re all largely disconnected from nature in some sense. “Simon Barnes’ series of stories argues that it is not the land that should be rewilded, but us,” says a Herald Scotland review of the book. Like a loving family member speaking straight to you, this book offers new tips and techniques for readers to embrace the outdoors and enjoy nature — and even become part of it.

<p><strong>$18.49</strong></p><p>This collection of poems, personally selected by Mary Oliver — the woman who birthed the <a href="https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/all-poems/item/poetry-180-133/the-summer-day/?loclr=blogpoe">popular musing</a> “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — is composed of her most illuminating work. The Pulitzer Prize-winning nature poet beautifully pens magnificent and astute observations about the creatures and physical world that surrounds us all. A New York Times bestseller and selected as one of Oprah’s “Books That Help Me Through” for Oprah’s Book Club, this selection of her best work inspires every reader to embrace thoughtfulness when stepping outside.</p>

11) Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

This collection of poems, personally selected by Mary Oliver — the woman who birthed the popular musing “What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — is composed of her most illuminating work. The Pulitzer Prize-winning nature poet beautifully pens magnificent and astute observations about the creatures and physical world that surrounds us all. A New York Times bestseller and selected as one of Oprah’s “Books That Help Me Through” for Oprah’s Book Club, this selection of her best work inspires every reader to embrace thoughtfulness when stepping outside.

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