Aphasia sucks! Reading sucks, and then I learned to do it right.   This week I read three books, “Nora Goes Off Script” by Annabel Monaghan, “Book Lovers” by Emily Henry, and “The Last Train to Key West” by Chanel Cleeton. I hadn’t read three books in a week since I had a stroke.   It started this week because my wife, Becky, told me about going to the Cape Cod luncheon hosted by Where the Sidewalk Ends. She had read the book by Natalie Jacobson, “Every Life A Story.” My wife did not read the other two books but

I stopped reading books when I was diagnosed with aphasia. Before the stroke, I read all the C. J. Box books about Joe Pickett, the game warden in Wyoming. All except for “Dark Sky”, which was Book 21. It took me a while to read it. With aphasia, reading is more difficult. Temple PACT Book Group worked with us to learn to read two books over the last two semesters. We read two to three chapters each week. Many of us try using audiobooks instead of reading. I use both reading and audiobooks together and it helps me read the