From: The New York Times
How to Rekindle Your Love of Reading
September 11, 2025
The staff at my local library are usually a convivial bunch, but when I asked them about a recent report that fewer people were reading for fun, they grew subdued.
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Elizabeth A.L. Stine-Morrow, a professor emerita of educational psychology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said she used to be reluctant to reread books — “because I wasn’t ‘making progress,’ whatever that was.”
But that was a mistake, she said; it’s often on the second reading that you can really see the big picture of what the book is about.
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