Author and Illustrator Gene Luen Yang has always been a slow reader. He remembers as a kid being lined up each month by his teacher, the line ordered by the number of pages each student had read that month. He was always at the end of the line. But he did come to realize that it doesn’t matter how fast or slowly you read, it’s that engage in reading. And the more you read, the more you love it. Sometimes he has trouble getting invested in the first few pages or chapter of a book, so he will cast the characters and watch the story as if a movie in his head or maybe listen to the audio book for a chapter or two and then start reading.
