Marianne has learned to make a discipline of 15 minutes a day of reading. The idea of putting together 15 awake minutes feels like absolutely impossible at this moment. Sometimes the empathy I feel for the characters is so painful, I don't want to read it. Or I'm scared to open it because what if I fall in love with this character and then horrible things happen to this character? And that feels really anxiety provoking. It's not that I think I am very empathic.
Kate stopped reading in 2016. Since then, she’s tried to find her way back to it but something’s not clicking, and it’s left a book-shaped hole in her heart. Reading used to be something she really enjoyed, took pride in, and loved connecting with people over. On this episode of How To!, co-host Carvell Wallace brings in Maryanne Wolf, director of UCLA’s Center For Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice and author of the book, Reader, Come Home. Maryanne explains the science behind the reading brain as well as how to deeply engage with books and make reading a habit again.
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