BOOK WEEK 2019

Read Now, Read Forever → BOOK WEEK 2019

READ NOW:

In every instance that a novel is consumed, experience is gained--crystallised in the mind of the reader forever. It has been said that people take to the stories they read more than any instructions heard in real life. Narrative is fundamental to human living, and novels themselves simply an extension--capturing and reflecting the ways we live, invoking the ever-present empathy, bringing the all-too natural joy, inspiring the astoundingly hot anger; it is near unparalleled in its ability to enable and empower one to act or to learn--to draw similarities between the novel once read and the real picture before a person. Perspectives, insights, and experiences are gained through reading--all things great authors and leaders have recognised as necessary to expand our perception of life itself. To read now means to read forever; it means to take what was once learned and remember it; it means to view, to recognise, and to appreciate the expansive, overlapping space between what we know and what we read.

READ FOREVER:

The first book that truly enraptures a reader’s heart is the one to set them up for a lifetime of reading. The first page marks the first date of a timeline filled with infinite adventures of pirates, monsters, crumbling governments and an infinite amount of other stories. It is so important to read, and to read now, as it ensures access to the imagination and creative settings that we are deprived of in real life. Reading is an escape and a beginning that will change the way we view the world forever. The characters reveal understandings and truths unbeknownst to us until now. Books are gateways into worlds that will stay in our minds forever; spiralling castles, technological mazes, intergalactic journeys, schools of magic, underwater kingdoms and more. It is essential to read now as the letters on the page are stepping stones into narratives wedged between pages that will exist eternally in our minds and hearts forever.

-M Lansley and A Abreu, Year 11

20 August 2019