WHY THE HYPE ABOUT READING?
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once. – George R.R Martin. Is this really true? Is reading that important? Wondering why parents and teachers encourage us to read a lot? I always had these thoughts dancing through my mind whenever anyone spoke about reading. Often, we kids think reading is boring, not attractive, it’s too long or we have an image of grandma sitting with books and that’s precisely a few reasons why we don’t even give reading a chance. Reading has a lot more to offer than any other hobby. Reading helps us practice imagination by letting the words describe a certain image while the reader manipulates the picture in mind. When we start reading in such a way each book takes us to a new height of imagination. In the famous Harry Potter series, J K Rowling uses the famous spell ALOHOMORA (The one that Hermione uses to unlock doors in the first book) to the doors of our imaginative minds and takes us into a world of advent