We should affirm the great value of reading just for the fun of it. . . . In my experience, Christians are strangely reluctant to take this advice. We tend to be earnest people, always striving for self-improvement, and can be suspicious of mere recreation. But God doesn't just create, he takes delight in his creation, and expects us to delight in it too; and since he has given us the desire to make things ourselves-has allowed us to be "sub-creators," as J. R. R. Tolkien says--we may rightly take delight in the things that we {and others} make. Reading for the sheer delight of it-reading at whim-is therefore one of the most important kinds of reading there is.
( Alan Jacobs )
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