Why do we read? Because it's fun!

[sawyl]

Catching up on my backlog I noticed Jo Walton had a fine piece on Tor entitled What is Reading for?, positively brimming with sage advice:

I do believe there are things everyone ought to do: big things like defending civilization, building the future, making art, and mending the world. I do try to do my share of those. And there are little chores everyone has to do like laundry and flossing and taking vitamins. Again, I do my best with this. There are things everyone has to do to earn money. Then there’s the rest of it, the things one does just for fun.

Yet another reminder that I need to have more fun: that I need to sort myself out some part-time academic thing to keep my mind active; that I ought to commit to doing a distance race or take a climbing course or go to a triathlon boot camp or something...