re: UGAs Malcolm Mitchell and his book club

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Good for him. Reading is my drug.

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It will only help him later in life. How many times do we hear of athletes going broke? The dirty little secret no one talks about is that part of it is due to them being functionally illiterate and forced to rely on the goodwill of agents and others. But reading not only helps them in that regard it sharpens the mind and forces you to focus.

Even reading junk novels forces you to develop an attention span and engage parts of your brain you don't otherwise engage and of course it helps in terms of developing one's imagination.

As for germans.... hell given there's a game on and it's news to a lot of us, don't even sweat it.