The article discusses the challenges of maintaining a reading habit amidst daily life distractions. It highlights the author's personal experience, revealing how vacations inspire reading while normal life leads to neglected books. The piece focuses on Jen, a new mother struggling to find time to read due to her baby's demands. The author reflects on the cognitive awareness of the joys of reading, contrasting it with the overwhelming pull of screen time and how finding the right book is essential for rekindling the reading habit.
But plop me back in my normal life where the shelves are dusty and the groceries need to be bought, and the appeal of picking up a book diminishes.
Most often, though, this struggle happens when I don't have the right book for the period of my life that I'm in.
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