On the lost art of reading aloud
Someone recently asked me what book was the most fun book for me to read in my life. They clarified, “I’m not talking about what the best book you ever read was. I’m not talking about literary greatness or literary perfection. What book was the most FUN to read?”
It did not take me very long to come up with an answer. But I could not come up with just one. I came up with two. It was a tie. I simply could not put one over the other.
While it was quick and easy to come up with the two books tied for my ‘most fun book to read,’ it took quite a bit of explaining as to WHY I picked those two books. The two books are very, very different from each other and, for the most part, the situations in which I read them were very different.
But there was one thing the reading of those two books had in common; they were both read ALOUD….
In an early scene in the movie, Fifty First Dates, the character played by Drew Barrymore is sitting alone in a diner reading a book when the character played by Adam Sandler comes into the diner and they meet for the first time.
