{"id":294288,"date":"2025-07-26T21:40:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294288\/"},"modified":"2025-07-26T21:40:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T21:40:19","slug":"the-pleasures-of-reading-outside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/294288\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pleasures of Reading Outside"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of stories to spark your curiosity and fill you with delight. Sign up here<\/a> to get it every Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cReading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long,\u201d Bekah Waalkes wrote this past spring. \u201cAs a child, when nice weather came around, I was told to put down my book and go play outside.\u201d But why can\u2019t reading a book be a form of outdoor play? Reading outside can also be a practice in sustained attention, Waalkes writes: The act of focus can actually sharpen \u201cone\u2019s perception of the trees, the soil, the friends chattering at the next table in the beer garden.\u201d<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s newsletter offers a guide to reading outdoors\u2014how to make the most of it, and which books to take with you on your adventure.<\/p>\n

Six Books You\u2019ll Want to Read Outdoors<\/p>\n

By Bekah Waalkes<\/p>\n

Reading has been unfairly maligned as an indoor activity for far too long.<\/p>\n

Read the article.<\/a><\/p>\n

24 Books to Get Lost in This Summer<\/p>\n

By The Atlantic Culture Desk<\/p>\n

The Atlantic\u2019s writers and editors have chosen fiction and nonfiction to match all sorts of moods.<\/p>\n

Read the article.<\/a><\/p>\n

The One Book Everyone Should Read<\/p>\n

By The Atlantic Culture Desk<\/p>\n

The Atlantic\u2019s staffers on the books they share\u2014again and again<\/p>\n

Read the article.<\/a><\/p>\n

Still Curious?<\/b><\/p>\n

Other Diversions<\/b><\/p>\n

P.S.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"ACourtesy of Tim Tumlin<\/p>\n

I recently asked readers to share a photo of something that sparked their sense of awe in the world. \u201cI had awakened early on this morning in July 2016 and tiptoed out of the hikers’ dorms at Rifugio Lagazuoi, which is perched at 9,000 feet in the Italian Dolomites,\u201d Tim Tumlin, 74, in Darien, Illinois, writes. \u201cAs I hoped, the silent overwhelming beauty made the climb the day before more than worthwhile.\u201d<\/p>\n

I\u2019ll continue to feature your responses in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Isabel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is an edition of The Wonder Reader, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a set of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3938],"tags":[3444,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-294288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114921709601252799","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}