Why do you like reading?

[Neha Puri]

I Like reading fiction stories or fantasy stories. They are like a break from the cruel and real world. In those stories, the world is full of happiness. Everything happens like we are in dreams far away from reality. I like those dream sequence fantasy books.

[Neha Puri]

I like reading because it gives new ideas and advice on how to see a situation and person. But mainly it gives me a feeling of relaxation.

[Caffrey_19]

I like experiencing new things. I like seeing things from a vantage point as it gives me a comprehensive insight on matters I could probably face in the future. Reading creates the platform for better understanding.

[Radhika_puri]

I like reading because it give me relaxation and a sense of peace. It’s a way for me to exit from real world for some time.

[Jessicalaurenw1]

Books provide so much for me. They provide an escape from the mundane when I need one or they allow me to see life through another’s eyes. They teach me things both academically and in life experience. There is no shortage of information that I can learn from books. This is why I enjoy it so much.

[alexandriaNS]

I honestly read probably because I love movies, a lot. Books are just really long, detailed movies where I get to pick the actors who play each role.

[FInziani]

1) It helps me escape to another world.
2) keeps my mind off negative thoughts

[Jazimina4]

I love to read. It's such a great excape for me and it's addicting. Ever since I was a child, I've picked up books and vanished into these different worlds different than my own.
My childhood was horrible. I underwent severe abuse and neglect as a child. My father was a true psychopath. He had no remorse whatsoever for the things he put my brother and I through. I was abused in every way possible and out through acts of torture and basically made the Cinderella of our home. I wasn't allowed friends and to go anywhere but school and back or my Grandmother's house.
So when at my Grandma's house I'd skip on down to the library right down the road. I'd check out a stack of books and devour them.
Video games and artwork was also a great excape for me.
We were finally freed from it all when I turned 15. I received a ton of therapy and didn't lose my mind. I ended up becoming an empath and I became hyper aware of surrounding environment and read books even more.
As a kiddo I even owned an entire set of encyclopedias and enjoyed learning from them.
I especially enjoy stories of strong individuals that have faced trauma and came out strong like I did, or people brave enough to put themselves through a crazy situation just to write on it and share it with the world. Like Nellie Bly did when she wrote on her book "ten days in a madhouse" I learned about that book in a book called the "tea rose" by Jennifer Donnelly and I had to order it. I highly recommend that book.
She went to an institution back in the Victorian times and acted crazy to get there just to write about her experience and what she others go through. It's a very short read but it'll stick in my mind forever.
It's also a very good way for me to learn to write. I plan to write on my own story and it'll be a lot like the book "A child called it." I'm sure many of you have read that one. It's very sad and has triggers in it for me but healing at the same time.
I'm the type of reader who can go everywhere with my physical book and do things as I read. It's kind of nuts. I feel the emotions easily of what the author is trying to convey.
Reading gives me my own safe space, and a joy that wouldn't be the same if I couldn't read. I push my own children to read as well. Do they grumble yes.. Oh well.. this mama is a T-Rex mama and after years of pushing now they're 9, 10 and 14 and they enjoy reading too. I win.

[curtisking1438]

I will mimic what many have already said, reading is an escape for me and it helps me grow in areas that I had never considered before!

[Jacktone Ogada]

Reading is a way of nourishing the brain. Book offer a kind of peace of mind not found elsewhere.

[sacredheartsbookclub]

I think it's the element of discovery that keeps me reading - there is just so much to learn from many different walks of life (and even the personal daydreams of someone else) that keeps me looking for more and more books to consume . One of the books that that recently inspired this joy for me is The Vegetarian by Han Kang

[gayscott]

I enjoy reading because it allows me to escape my world for a little while. Living with multiple sclerosis is not easy. Reading allows me to go on new adventures with every book

[Netvigator72]

I read for two reasons...

1) To escape. I love being transported to another time or place. I love that feeling of seeing or doing or experiencing something different.

2) To see things from a different perspective. I love a book that makes me think and shows me things from other people's perspectives.

Very well said!

[samjj89]

I love to read because it allows you to get an escape from reality and be transformed into different worlds other than your own.

[steve2gold]

I love reading for some reasons,but majorly to stay informed.

I love staying informed.

I also read because I want to see how the abstract world works,and prove if I'm not the only one acting weird.

Reading makes me happy and stretches my brain.
I come up with great ideas after reading.

Reading stirs my thinking and makes me feel extraordinary afterwards