Whats the longest you have gone without reading ?
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Whats the longest you have gone without reading ?
For me its probably about a year in my mid 20s.
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A year? I wouldn't last two minutes without reading.
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." (Mortimer J. Adler)
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Then one day I was driving past Borders, and the announcer on the radio mentioned a new movie, based on a book, that would enter theaters soon: Twilight.
I veered over to the bookstore and found the book. I bought it and read it and loved it.
That was how I rediscovered the YA genre!
-- 21 Jun 2015, 00:54 --
Prior to that, I read sparsely for several years, unable to find anything I enjoyed.
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I know how that feels. It took me walking away from college for a bit to really appreciate the books in the curriculum. I stumbled from majoring in English to Engineering; but now I'm returning to what I believe I love, so that one day, I can introduce a novel to a whole class of English majors that don't want to read it haha. There are some good picks, but if it feels out of obligation, the meaning tapers. That's how I felt, at least.Eyre-thee-well wrote:Reading for pleasure went out the window for a while when I was in college. I mean, I read, just very few things that I wanted to read. And anytime I tried, I always felt guilty because I knew I should be reading one of my books for class.
As for the topic at hand, I practically spent a whole childhood without reading. I sparsely read, but developed an aspiration of becoming a writer. Go figure.
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It was a dark time.
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That story is hilarious. What was she thinking???Jojowrites4All wrote:1 day on vacation. My sister removed all my books without my knowledge. I asked for directions to the nearest book store the next morning while she slept. The nearest book store was Ollie's!
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Yeah it was during a time were i for some reason just did not feel like reading.gali wrote:A day!
A year? I wouldn't last two minutes without reading.
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