BECOMING A LEADING READER: Securing the future by developing a vibrant reading culture

The Cost of ignorance and the degrading habit of reading can’t be estimated in currency alone, it has a trans-generational adverse effect. Neglecting a serious issue as reading is neglecting a serious issue as leading. Two factors determine the level of change in any human or society, the books they read and their associations. It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. An outstanding leader is an avid reader.

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”- Joseph Brodsky

Getting this book is like sowing a seed that can repair a lifelong damage to any family or generation. This book is an advocacy for developing a vibrant reading culture in our society today which joins the league of buried issues, lay foundation for sustainable national development. It is a book with a clarion call for mental renovation, developing leading habits by vibrant plans for reading good books, early child literacy and genuine continuity in the development of our education sector. Children are made readers on the laps of their parents commented Emilie Buchwald. Investing in good books is great and it pays the best interest rate! Anna Quindlen account in her books that “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.” The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty. This book can be a coach to you in exercising your mind for transformation.

There are a lot of things said about seasoned movies in the Nigeria entertainment industry; I often times quit watching entertainments because I don’t see much of good leading readers among our entertainers. Watching can have restrictions and gates fees but reading gives a discount at learning. The role of a lively reading culture in Africa is unquantifiable. Good Leaders are good readers. Reading good books that transforms is the highest form of pleasure and entertainment. I love watching, talking and thinking sport especially football and tennis. I often do all these watching with my pen and books to write great lessons and ideas my brain is absorbing from the exercise relating sport for the transformation of my mind for positive impacts. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, or any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.”
- Lady Montagu

This book is a lifeline for all that seeks mental renovation by developing a vibrant reading culture that transforms positively.