Curling Up with a Book
The Case for Curling Up with a Book
March 2nd, 2012
Can you imagine that the world’s youngest billionaires and the best known co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, quit his occupation just to have stress free environment in order to curl up with a good book? Well, Carol Shields would do anything to curl up with a good book as she explained in her essay of “The Case for Curling Up with a Book”. Shields published this essay in 1997 to persuade people to read without any interruptions. She encouraged us to use our brain to the fullest since reading requires a lot of concentration. Besides, she was reminding us the reasons and the passion to read. Curling up with a book requests time and solitude, demands our full attention and requires us to get into the reading. First of all, in order to curl up with a book, one should be isolated in his/her free time when there are no disturbances at all. It’s necessary to read in your free time because it is the time when you have nothing on mind. This is very helpful since our mind would be empty of issues and worries of our daily life. It also needs a comfortable place and environment to be able to focus on the reading; it is necessary to be alone when it comes for reading. It has happened to me that I can’t read anything in the college because there have been a lot of distractions; for example, the noisy atmosphere, electronic devises, too many people walking by and others. I’d rather wait until I arrive at my house; I would immediately go to my room with no interruptions, so I can read in silence and concentrate. Carol Shields (1997) explain that being lonely is necessary when one reads. It is not something to pity about as compared when someone is eating alone in the restaurant or watching the movie alone on a Valentine’s Day. Solitary reading is the first requirement to curl up with a book: “Our hearts go out to them, but reading, by definition, can only be done alone. I would like to make the case today for
March 2nd, 2012
Can you imagine that the world’s youngest billionaires and the best known co-founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, quit his occupation just to have stress free environment in order to curl up with a good book? Well, Carol Shields would do anything to curl up with a good book as she explained in her essay of “The Case for Curling Up with a Book”. Shields published this essay in 1997 to persuade people to read without any interruptions. She encouraged us to use our brain to the fullest since reading requires a lot of concentration. Besides, she was reminding us the reasons and the passion to read. Curling up with a book requests time and solitude, demands our full attention and requires us to get into the reading. First of all, in order to curl up with a book, one should be isolated in his/her free time when there are no disturbances at all. It’s necessary to read in your free time because it is the time when you have nothing on mind. This is very helpful since our mind would be empty of issues and worries of our daily life. It also needs a comfortable place and environment to be able to focus on the reading; it is necessary to be alone when it comes for reading. It has happened to me that I can’t read anything in the college because there have been a lot of distractions; for example, the noisy atmosphere, electronic devises, too many people walking by and others. I’d rather wait until I arrive at my house; I would immediately go to my room with no interruptions, so I can read in silence and concentrate. Carol Shields (1997) explain that being lonely is necessary when one reads. It is not something to pity about as compared when someone is eating alone in the restaurant or watching the movie alone on a Valentine’s Day. Solitary reading is the first requirement to curl up with a book: “Our hearts go out to them, but reading, by definition, can only be done alone. I would like to make the case today for