Why do you like reading?
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Re: Why do you like reading?
- Gwen Johnson
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It's a form of stress reliever.
Broadens my thinking capability.
I love reading books.
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It offers me a mean to escape from the real world.
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I read to gain knowledge of others, their folklore, their culture.
I read to escape worries and find peace in good mystery.
Reading and books are a way of connecting with other minds, that have the ability to communicate their imaginations with us.
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but i think the best ones are the ones that stay with you always, whether you read them once or a hundred times. like when you meet a great person and you stay up the entire night talking... thats what reading a truly great book feels like to me
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Now that I am older, I have started reading more self-improvement and educational books. I love it because I feel that the written word is a way for people to express what they mean, in a very clear manner. Watching talks or videos, listening to lectures, etc. doesn't have the same feel to it. The amount of time and preparation that goes into a book makes it that much more enjoyable. It allows the speaker to take the time to put their ideas in to the clearest format possible and minimize possible misinterpretations.
I still read for escape sometimes. It's what started my love of reading. That love has developed into broadening my worldview and education. I believe that each book has something unique to offer. So as long as there are books, I will be reading them!
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- Ellie Greenberg
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As I grew older I lost a lot of that magic. I stopped reading as much- in high school I barely had any time at all. Due to health and personal circumstances, reading became a luxury I couldn’t afford. When I became an adult, I rediscovered the magic in reading. I lived on my own and made my own rules and one of the ways I coped with the difficult times I had to endure, was becoming someone else for a while, in a world where the problems of the protagonist were fantastical, and far away from my own life. I feel sometimes like I was able to survive a lot of the traumas I’ve endured because I could escape in a book. And because the words in my books made life seem so much more manageable, and so much more desirable than the thoughts going around in my head. And no matter what awful things happened to the people in my book, the story kept going. There were still pages ahead, the story would keep going. Reading is so important to who I am and I’m glad to say it is likely one of the reasons I am here today.