One of the aspects of reading a book that I like is that a book causes me to slow down and pay attention. Our world is in a rush. Whenever I sit down to read a 300 page novel it is quite a time investment. I’m not the fastest of readers. If I’m sleepy I’ll be lucky to even finish the third page in that sitting before I’m forced to head to bed for the evening. People ought to slow down and pay greater attention. So many of us seem to think we have little or no time for reading. Although it seems like we have time for everything else the world has to offer. There’s time for fighting on social media and time for our beloved TV shows and time for video games. We do have time to read books if we invest our time differently.

I set a…