Lesson:Let’s chat about philosopher David Hume’s insight into the relationship between emotion and rationality, and apply it to our reading habits.Hume famously asserted that reason is, and ought to be, the slave of the passions. In the context of building a reading habit, this means that our emotional engagement with reading is far more influentialContinue reading Day 10 – Hume’s Passion over Reason (Make it Emotional)
I am reading The Covenant of Water and thoroughly enjoying it. It is beautifully written allowing the reader to stop and savor the language; sometimes reading a passage more than once. The reader is emotionally connected to all the characters and their experiences resonate due to our shared humanity.