Why You Should Read Outside Your Lane

The importance of leaving your reading comfort zone (and how to do it!)

Rebecca Laura
A Literary Life
Published in
7 min readOct 19, 2021

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We all have lanes or comfort zones when it comes to books. Whether it’s favourite authors, genres or themes we love to revisit again and again. Comfort zones aren’t a bad thing, of course, it’s fine to enjoy what you enjoy. I’ve spoken before about why you should read what you want

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Rebecca Laura
A Literary Life

Bookworm, writer, mum of two. Making it up as I go along, literally.