Stories Matter: Why Today Reminds Us What Reading Is Really About

World Book Day has arrived with a simple but powerful invitation: stop what you’re doing and read a book purely for pleasure. Not because you feel obligated. Not because of some ideological agenda. But because you genuinely want to.
In a world that constantly pulls us in different directions, Book Day serves as a gentle reminder of why so many of us fell in love with reading in the first place. It’s about that immersive feeling when you’re lost in a good story, when the pages turn themselves and time seems to disappear.
So if you’ve been meaning to pick up that novel gathering dust on your shelf, or finally start that book everyone’s been recommending, today is your permission slip. Grab whichever book speaks to you—fiction, memoir, poetry, anything at all—and simply begin to read.

Source: Maariv — Original article in Hebrew.