Non-fiction books teach us about the world. Fiction books teach us about ourselves. In this post I write about how you can use reading not only as entertainment, but as a way to deepen the most important relationship you have; the one with yourself.

I loved Where The Crawdad’s Sing so much, that I read it all in one day and then was promptly bombarded with book hangover symptoms.

According to Epic Reads, a book hangover is defined as a “condition in which attachment to a book or series that has ended causes the reader traumatic emotional distress. It usually lasts for one to two weeks, or until a new book of higher-than-average quality enters the reader's life.”

What I hope to gain from reading Science Fiction, is a stronger invention muscle. Is this a thing?

Finding creative solutions is key to living a good life.

Sometimes it can be a leisurely activity, but I always find my self underlining, copying passages into my commonplace book, and annotating pages.

This is because I read to become. To become more educated, cultured, articulate, understanding, and ultimately, I read to become a better writer.

I am not satisfied with reading an exquisite sentence once.

Creating new traditions, and sticking with them, can transform ordinary events into deeply intentional ones. On this day, National Earth Day, I decided to read Ralph Waldo Emerson's Essay "Nature" and to do so on every Earth Day moving forward.