Last week, I said to one of my colleagues, oh, did you read so-and-so's new book? And he was like,

the one that she published like four years ago. Oh, yeah, it's been sitting on my shelf

looking at me for four years. Welcome to how to. I'm Carvel Wallace. I'm always so

interested in what you, our lovely listeners, need help with.

We get life optimization questions, we get identity questions, tangly relationship questions,

but sometimes it's a question that's just deeply relatable.

Hi, my name is Kate, and I live in San Francisco. First of all, the how to love your face episode broke me in all the best ways. So thank you for that. I am hoping you can help me become a reader again. I'm dyslexic, so I was late to reading, and it was a little harder for me.

But there were times in my life where I was in book clubs and enjoyed it and did it and

learned things and fueled my intellectual curiosity.

And that has stopped, and I'd like to reconnect with that.

For many of us, reading is a thing that ebbs and flows. Maybe your first introduction to

it is as a source of comfort. We cuddle with a parent before bed as they read us stories and show

us pictures. Then we're doing it on our own, and it becomes a challenge. We're trying to decipher

words and conquer harder and harder concepts.

Eventually something clicks, and we're able to dive into other worlds, swept away by words all on our own.

But somewhere along the line, maybe in school, maybe for work, it becomes a chore.

It takes effort to prioritize it, consistency, intentionality,

even compromise. Life seems to always get in the way. But there's a reason why so many of us

are looking to rekindle our relationship with reading right now. You're not the first person

I've asked to help me with this.

So before the pandemic, I was at one of my high schools.

Kate teaches sex ed to students and parents at different schools around the Bay Area.

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