Maybe part of it is the self-indulgent fact that I like the sound of my own voice, but I think that more people should read out loud.<\/p>\n
Aside from random school presentations and other opportunities for learning, the first time I remember reading something out loud to other people was in a summer program during high school.<\/p>\n
For some reason, someone in the group of friends I had formed at this program needed to read A Prayer for Owen Meaney<\/em> during that summer, and I offered to help make the reading more pleasant by holding a daily storytime where I would read the book aloud to everyone, chapter by chapter.<\/p>\n And, for some inexplicable reason, my friends agreed. So we would cluster ourselves in the basement of our dorm each evening, and I would read the book to them out loud.<\/p>\n It was wonderful. It also was my introduction to John Irving, for which I am also quite grateful.<\/p>\n I still read aloud, but only to Katie now, and not as often as I (or she) would like. I think the reason I find it so enjoyable is because it\u2019s a kind of sneaky way of turning an activity that is designed to be private into a shared experience.<\/p>\n That, and the theatricality of turning a story from words on a page into sound. As a reader, there are certain powers that I enjoy, such as the tone and pacing of the piece that may not be entirely evident just as words on the page.<\/p>\n I encourage everyone to try it. Find someone to read to, or who will read to you. Not everyone will comfortable in the former group, of course, but it\u2019s worth a try.<\/p>\n That, and you get to do voices, which is \u2013 of course \u2013 the best part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Maybe part of it is the self-indulgent fact that I like the sound of my own voice, but I think that more people should read out loud. Aside from random school presentations and other opportunities for learning, the first time I remember reading something out loud to other people was in a summer program during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[168,169],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year26","tag-books","tag-reading","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.scott-n-katie.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}