Joseph Brodsky: Sympathy For Reading Books

Joseph Brodsky said, “There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” A lot of people have an apathy for reading. When you read you gain so much knowledge without even realizing it. Reading laconic books from when you were in kindergarten like, “Goodnight Moon,” taught you how to appreciate everything around you. Reading notification or fiction you could still learn something. The things that you know now, are things that you learned when you were younger. Do you remember the, Three Little Pigs? Maybe even, Goldilocks and the Three Bears? These were days, when you were read to by either, your early childhood teacher or parent.Those books interest me so much, one day I learned how to read and I read those books …show more content…
There is a point where you start liking people more than just being friends. You start to look different, you try different things, and you stop reading books because it’s not cool. What I’m describing, is a place called middle school. In middle school, we read all the time. Well, they read and I stared at the book. The Hobbit was one of the books we read. I wish I could tell you about it, but I was not moved by it one bit. In 8th grade, is when I found out that I like reading, just not every category. My favorites, were teen suspense and teen romance. Speak, was a phenomenal book. It portrayed some many aspects of a typical teenage life. A man named, W. Somerset Maugham said, “The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.” My current reading status, is not in the books. I typically read online, whether it is news, social media, and song lyrics. I have not read a book since April, I read Hamlet. That story has a lot of issues and kind of relates today’s reality. Just because I liked Hamlet, does not mean that I love reading books. I only read if I have to because i find it being very lethargic.One day I will overcome my stubborn feelings towards reading