We interrupt our usual review programming to bring you something I am passionate about! Yet again, John Green has spoken what is in my heart, and this time it is about my favorite topic: books! He talks about how books are communication, and that reading is an act of empathy. How it is more important for the reader to get something inspiring out of a book than it is for the author's intent to be fully understood. AND how grammar is so important!
If anyone asks you why reading is so important, here is a version of what Jon says (the list goes by so fast)!
By reading critically and understanding language you will:
1) Have a fuller understanding of lives other than your own, which
2) Will help you to be more empathetic, and thereby
3) Help you to avoid getting dumped by that young woman in the first place, although more importantly,
4) Reading critically and attentively will give you the linguistic tools to share your own story with more precision.
And this will help you immensely in any field you enter, be it in finance where you have to give a presentation to the board, or in an argument where you are trying to explain your point of view, or as an author yourself!
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