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Reading helps me to learn English. For instance, there are many words I don’t know when I read a book or an article. So I learn these words when I reading.

Reading opens your mind.

It keeps me occupied & prevents boredome

- quality escapism
- improves eloquence

Its a nice distraction when you are bored.

It's hard to imagine life without being able to read, we should not take it for granted.

I never really thought of it before, but I guess I read because I like to. To escape from the real world for a while, I suppose.

I have a couple of different reasons for reading...one I usually read along the lines of suspense, thriller, crime....Catherine Coulter, James Patterson, Deborah Sharp, Harlan Coben, ect...of course first one I ever read was Agatha Christie....

I like to read these books as I like to solve the crime if possible, I like the turns and twists and some of them the comedy thrown in with a thriller...Mr. Coben and Ms. Sharp are great for this...

I like to escape the real world.

I also like to find series and then I also make friends....

On the same note of making friends makes it sad that the Eve Duncan series is coming to an end as I will lose a lot of friends.

clhughes614 wrote:I have a couple of different reasons for reading...one I usually read along the lines of suspense, thriller, crime....Catherine Coulter, James Patterson, Deborah Sharp, Harlan Coben, ect...of course first one I ever read was Agatha Christie....

I like to read these books as I like to solve the crime if possible, I like the turns and twists and some of them the comedy thrown in with a thriller...Mr. Coben and Ms. Sharp are great for this...

I like to escape the real world.

I also like to find series and then I also make friends....

On the same note of making friends makes it sad that the Eve Duncan series is coming to an end as I will lose a lot of friends.

You will always have your friends at the forum

Thank you always good to know...=D

It's a wonderful way to focus on the adventure that a books takes you on when you need to take your mind off of feeling rotten.

Nobody has mentioned how cheap a hobby reading is ... no club membership fees, no fancy equipment, no medical expences for treating injuries to oneself (or others), no travel expenses, no need to warm up, cool down or hydrate, no washing/drying gear, no showers, no special diets or medications, no rigid regimes, no coaches, no pressure, no motivators, no guilt! It can be engaged in anytime, anyplace, anywhere, alone or in company, fast or slow pace, hourly, weekly, monthly or annually. It can be dropped & picked up again months (or years) later with absolutely no ill effects. It's not age, gender or wealth dependent ... doesn't need a partner, timekeeper, scorekeeper, referee or judge.
What more could you possibly ask for?

I agree with Fran, it's probably the best thing out there. You treat yourself to an exciting adventure, and it's just you and you're imagination, and you can do it whenever you want, you can pick heaps of different adventures.

One thing for me though, I can meet new extroverted words that's always fun to look up in a dictionary.

Time goes faster. I can lose myself in a book and time goes far quicker than normal.
I think it's because it absorbs me totally unlike any other medium.

(I know a dancer who is doing one of those big casino shows and the choreographer told the cast they could sketch, knit, talk, braid hair between rehearsals but they were not allowed to read. Apparently she believes reading interfers with the learning or retaining of dance steps. Nice excuse for non-dancers "Sorry, I just read War & Peace").

@ Fran, Muad, you guys hit it right on the head. Its a cheap entertainment, and for me it makes a boring day go by faster. Last night I read a facinating story, I usually only read for a half hour or so but by the time I finished the story it was past midnight. The last time I went to San Diego I took a book along to read at the border wait, sometimes its two to three hours and reading made the time fly by. I kept my foot on the brake and would inch along between sentences.