Drawing People Into Reading by Allison Symes
Image Credit: Mainly via Book Brush using Pixabay photos. One image from me. I remember years ago being at a Book Fair when someone walked past, looked at my table and said loudly to their friend, “I don’t like books”. I so wanted to say “what are you doing here then” but judged it best not to! But it did throw up an attitude problem which worried me. Why is it, in some circles, considered a good thing to boast about not reading? What are they hoping to achieve? I know reading has never been “cool”. I was the typical girly swot at school. Always had my head in a book but I’ve never seen that as a problem. (I always associated myself with Velma from the cartoon series Scooby Doo rather than Daphne, and with Jo March from Little Women rather than, say, Meg March. I’ve always had a soft spot for the girls with glasses and the ones who love to write. Can’t imagine why that is - possibly the fact I am still a girl, albeit an older one now, with glasses who lo...