Prior to S and I leaving for our most recent trip, I had to skip forward several months in my 2023 Reading Challenge to find books that were available as e-books. What I did find, while I was searching my library databases, was an audiobook version of The Reading Promise. Several hours on airplanes gave me the opportunity to spend some time listening to this book, which I finished up shortly after we returned home.
During the paper book portion of this read, I found much of the author's writing to be somewhat trite, but I handled that just by skimming through the offending portions. One of the wonders of audiobooks is the ability to listen to them at an accelerated pace, which I very much did in order to speed through the remainder of this book. It's a very sweet story, and for a 22-year-old author, quite an accomplishment. Occasionally I found her innocence and perspective to be endearing, but more often I had enough of it and just wanted to move to the next chapter.
Having said that, I cannot overlook the book's unabashed championing of reading for reading's sake, which is a message I can get behind, wholeheartedly and unreservedly.
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