national ambassador for reading 2012
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A talk i gave at Lauriston Girls' School on the importance of reading.TRANSCRIPT
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READING A BOOK WILL OPEN UP YOUR WORLD.
Bryony ColeNational Year of Reading 2012
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What do they all have in common?
And what do they have to do with reading?
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They are all places I read about.
Before I visited.
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how reading books inspired me to travel
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connected me to amazing people…
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and helped me explore new worlds.
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A book can take you to new places, Without you ever needing to go.
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A book can help you escape new places.
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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. – carl sagan
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Reading can help you understand new cultures and people
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Reading you can travel in the paths of those before you.
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Where you will find me at the bookstore
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Then all this reading got me a pretty cool job.
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Travel writing isn’t as glamourous as it looks.
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The internet makes it easy to tell my own story.
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humans cannot out-evolve the emotional connection with words on a page- Daniel Wearne
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Reading will open up your world.