How I Fell in Love with Reading Slowly

It’s not all about the number

Marie Kester
Books Are Our Superpower
4 min readMay 12, 2021

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I used to define myself by the number of books I read. Everyone knew me as the girl who always brought a book with her wherever she went. In any free moments I had, I probably was reading. I read two to three books every week which added up to be pretty consistently 100 books a year. And I was proud of this number. I felt like it represented how…

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I enjoy word-related hobbies including reading, writing, and wordle. Writing about: books, travel, and anything else I love.