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📚 Read Slowly - Take Notes - Apply the Ideas​

Do You Need More Time to Read?

Hello Reader,

There’s never enough time to read. That’s the point. Reading is an activity of expansion. It adds to your life and makes it better, rather than something that must be done to avoid pain.

It falls into the category of “should” tasks.

🏋🏽‍♀️ I should go to the gym.

📞 I should call my mother.

📚 I should read a book.

We intend to do things that are good for us, but we often put those things on the back burner. How’s that strategy working out for you?

I’m not judging. I have a lot of “shoulds” as well. The point of today’s post is to remind myself that the “shoulds” are worth doing.

Until next time, read slowly - take notes - apply the ideas.

-Eddy

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Book Recommendation Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe Listen to the Podcast Every Book I Read in 2024 (With a Review) | EP 78 What's New at Edgewater Bookstore December's Book, Coffee, and Tea Announcement is Finally Here!

Book Recommendation

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I put off reading this book for a long time. I'm not sure why. Maybe it just seemed too old and dusty for my taste. Then I was assigned to read it for an American Literature class this fall, and you know what?
I loved every page.

Here’s why:

First, Stowe’s talent as a writer completely caught me off guard. At times, her style feels almost Shakespearean—her characters and prose are that rich. Other times, she’s gritty, down in the dirt with them. I didn’t expect to care about these characters as much as I did, but Uncle Tom, Aunt Chloe, and the Saint Clare family felt so real that I had to remind myself they were fictional.

Second, this book does exactly what great literature should do: it makes you feel and think differently. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is often credited as the book that changed American hearts and minds about slavery.

In 1862, when Stowe visited the White House, President Lincoln reportedly said, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.”

This book is now in my top ten.

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Every Book I Read in 2024 (With a Review) | EP 78

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