A Soft Page to Land

Ironically enough, I was never the kid who loved reading growing up. Everyone around me was flying through Hunger Games and Harry Potter, parting their hair into a side braid and pretending to cast spells, while I was just trying to read enough to meet my accelerated reading goal. I always thought reading was boring, like it was a necessary part of learning, not something I could actually find fun, let alone fulfilling.

That changed during my senior year of high school and into my first couple of years of college. Times were changing. I moved away from home, away from my closest friends, and away from the school I had gone to my entire life. I stumbled into reading, and it found me lost and looking for a friend. Between the pages of a light-hearted rom com or a plucky female-led classic,I found a connection to characters and to words on a page. It was a soft place to land amid so much change...

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Written by Kyndall Stone | Photographed by Sydney Timmons