Booking through volume--interactive post

I read more actully now that I am no longer in school. Between doing my school and work I read but not near as much as now. I finish about 2 books a week.

It depends on what I'm reading. Some books are easier to read than others.

Being a younger person, and in High School, I find it a lot harder to read because of homework, etc. Now I read in the morning. I get up every morning and devote and hour before I have to leave for school to reading a book, and that satisfies me. If I can't read during the day, I can do it in the morning. It is also relaxing because it is so quiet. Everyone else is asleep. That is all you need coffee and a book.

I have books in every room in my home and I am currently reading everything from self help to thriller! Books are a very important part of my life and one I don't ever see changing unless to add more!

I read a TON when I was younger and a TON in college; I read about a TON now, too.

I read mostly books which are review copies, new authors who deserve to be known and have sent their books out to be read and discussed.

P.S. Did you get your book yet? From the contest? :)
I tried to send a mail through Gather but I think it was during their update, not sure it went through.

P.S. Congrats on the feature!

I used to read a lot. Now being in high school, that has lessened a lot. I read on the way to school and the way home. Occasionally I get a chance to read in the evening, but other than that I try my best.

I've always loved to read. When I was young I spent as much time during the school day as was possible in the library. I read everything from books to magazines. As I got older I would read 3 or 4 books at once. Today, with my eyes and health not what they once were, I still buy books but I seldom read more than one or two a year. I do buy audio books and listen to them instead. Unfortunately, the unabridged ones are out of my budget so I have to settle for the adbridged ones. They are better than nothing but I do so miss spending Saturday and Sunday and reading one complete book now I listen to one instead.

When I was a kid I devoured everything I could get my hands on, and a book a day was not unheard of. There were a few years when my kids were small that I hardly read at all, but as they got older I was back to reading several books a week and have kept that up most of my life. I find now that being on the computer cuts into my reading time and I am not spending nearly as much time with a book in my hands- but this is reading, too!

It is not the quantity of reading, but the quality, that matters. Reading essentially is meant to give food to the thinking process of the mind. If it fails to do that, then it hardly matters if someone reads a book per minute, or a book in one year!

I love reading, and I have always found the time to read, even when I was working ridiculous hours. This past year, I think I have read more books than I have in decades. I love magazines and newspapers too, and so it's always a toss up as to which comes first, but I guess that I have just been putting the emphasis on books this year. I tend to read a lot more fiction than I used to. I still read nonfiction (mostly related to political issues), but the fiction writers are winning out.

This year I really discovered the wonderful world of mysteries and thrillers, and so it is like learning a new language. I've really been enjoying the ride.

To me, it boggles the mind that I have so many friends who say they don't "have time" to read. I feel like they are missing out on a lot of life by not reading.

I read so much when I was younger. My mom would take me every week to the bookstore. Now my reading has lessened a lot. With school work to do, and work tiring me out, I'm lucky if I finish a book in a month sometimes. It does help though if I'm familiar with the author and like the series.

I have four kids, a husband, a messy house and a job. I read about a book or two a month but I was the same as you when I was young. I could read a book a day because well 100 pages or so wasn't that much of a challenge. In my teens I read a book about every two days and now I can get through a book about that rate if I really try. I read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows in a little less than 36 hours. I wish I had more books to read and I will make a promise to read more over the next year. :D

I read more now. To be a writer, one must read, read read.

As a kid I did not really know alot of English vocabulary, so this made reading a chore. Now that I have a college degree my vocabulary is much, much better, and I read about 6 books per month. I am learning more about true history, and was so upset to find out that our government may not allways tell us the truth, that I started doing research on every subject that intrests me. Learning that advertisement is not all true either upset me aswell, go figure, so I started reading more and more about history, looking things up that others reference, biographies and things of that nature. Call me nieve, but I actually thought the government was taking care of me by monitoring the advertisement companies, and that I did not have anything to worry about because this is America nothing could be legally done to hurt me in any way!

I real less right now because I have two young children and every time I sit down to read I am interrupted constantly :-) I've gotten better at reading "on the fly" to speak but I still don't read nearly as much as I did before kids. But I do read more widely now then I did when I was younger. I am more willing to try new topics and new authors and even new genres then I was previously. And I think it's been great as I've discovered there is a lot of neat things out there!

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