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Hey!

How do you read so quickly? Do you have any tips?

Do you really absorb everything this way? How much time do you spend reading?

Merci

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Your writing is exactly what I wanted to read about reading and writing, except, I didn't know before I saw your words. I can even see and hear you, in front of me, like a real person. Of course, you are a real person. What I want to say is, when I was looking for some writings about other people talking about their reading, I didn't know what I was looking for. For most of the time, I ended up with those articles that 99% the same, talking about the plot, how useful how impactful the book was, or, those words that introducing the book thousands times already on the internet. Until I saw your writing, I think I was smiling, smiling to a friend, who is talking in front of me, simply just talking about random feelings about reading. Nothing particular, not about the use, not about how amazing the book is, not about how many people had recommended it already. It's just a talk, a talk that we can have in a raining afternoon. We hold our hot tea, or coffee, sitting next to the window next to the street, and blanket wrapped. It's not a conversation that requires feedback, or likes. They are just the words that fall into this moment, in front of the window, between the two. I don't have this kind of friends in my life. I do, actually, my husband. He is the only one that can read together with me, and we talk about books. But I still miss a friend, like a friend I had in school, when I was a little girl. We didn't have money, we didn't know much of anything, but we shared new books, new knowledge, new feelings we got from reading. But now, when I am older, when I am living in another country so far away from all my friends, I miss my friend from childhood. Your writing, gives me this feeling, of having a new friend, but seems so familiar at the same time. Thank you.

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