Every Day I Read

In the era of numerous ‘reading challenges’ and hacks for speed reading, Hwang Bo Reum’s Every Day I Read arrives like a slow, deep breath. It is a quiet manifesto against the optimization of our inner lives. For anyone who has felt guilty about their ever-growing ‘TBR pile,’ or anyone who feels the pressure to perform their intellect, this book is a soft landing. Here, we are invited to stop treating books like tasks to be completed and start treating them like windows to be peered through instead.

But reading is about understanding the world and ourselves, not finishing as many books as possible. We aren’t reading to become faster, but to feel and understand more.

Every Day I Read strives to remind us that the goal of a reader is not just to reach the final page, but to also be transformed by the journey there. Validating the slow readers and the re-readers alike, this one acknowledges that our inner lives deserve a pace that allows for true feeling rather than just data collection.

This one isn’t just a book about books; it is a guide on how to live with more intention, one page at a time. Furthermore, it is a soothing, contemplative balm for the modern mind, proving that the simplest habits are often the ones that save us. If you are looking to fall in love with reading all over again, but on your own terms, be sure to pick this one up!