Today on the first day of the new year I came across the above photo of a young lady in front of all the books she read in 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new year 2022 has arrived, and the stage is set for her, me, and you to journey through the next twelve months of literary adventures. How wonderful is that moment when you open a book to page one and start a narrative journey with the author! What interesting characters and involving scenarios will a person encounter by the end? The only thing really new in the world are all the books you have not read yet. It is like a new world yet to be discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the great novels you can read in the new year. All you can learn by stretching your mind to learn from literature. All the lessons large and small they can teach. All the fun to be had in their reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The thought that comes to mind in looking at that photo of the woman in front of the stack of books she read in 2021<\/a> is how rare it is to find a real reader. \u201cReading is boring!\u201d is the most familiar refrain. Or people tell me they learned to dislike reading when schools forced them to do it. Or reading books gets crowded out by electronic distractions. Or it requires too much effort and makes their head hurt. Most Americans, especially younger people, invest their time in staring at various types of screens instead \u2014 they find themselves idle, and they reach for their smartphone or video game console to drive away the boredom:<\/p>\n\n\n\n