Who says we’re not reading?

Who says we’re not reading?

If you were to judge by the strong participation in the West Tisbury Library Classics reading group, the death knell for reading would seem premature. The statistics outside our small Island are sobering, though.  The National Endowment for the Arts and the Pew Research Center’s Daily report that reading for pleasure has dropped by more than 40 percent over the past two decades, and that only 38 percent of adults read novels or short stories, re…