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 Carveau Wallace. I'm always so interested in what you are

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've been 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.

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