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# Reading slowly, on purpose
- URL: https://thomasgravy.github.io/missive/reading-slowly-on-purpose/
- Published: 2026-08-23T07:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-26T21:46:55.000Z
- Description: I read one book all summer. It was the best reading year I have had in a decade.
- Author: Clara Moreau
- Tags: Attention

In June I decided to read only one book until September. Not a long book, either. Just one, slowly, with a pencil.

The first week was hard. My hands kept reaching for the next thing. By the third week something changed: I started noticing the sentences instead of racing through them to find out what happens.

> We do not remember books. We remember the person we were while reading them.

I will go back to reading more than one book at a time. But I will keep one slow book on the go, always, as a kind of anchor.