There’s Reading and Then There’s Reading I don’t know if you’ve thought about it but reading is a subject that is both simple and complex. It’s simple enough we start to read at age five or six. By the time we’re a teenager the average person knows everything she needs to be able to read for the rest of her life. That doesn’t mean we all read the same. There are fast and slow readers. There are voracious and reluctant readers. Many read for work and many read for pleasure. We read to better ourselves and to kill time when ...

by Ward Cushman