Why do you like reading?

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Re: Why do you like reading?

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I love learning about how different people think and view things, reading gives me the opportunity to delve into the minds and hearts of different types of people, its expands my own thinking in turn and helps me be more compassionate as a person.
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I like reading because it develops my vocabulary, exposes me to how other people feel,think and act in different situations. It increases my imagination, am always present at the scene of the book as I read,is amazingly weird,right?but wonderful? :shock:

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To get more knowledge and also know impotent things which we don't know by reading books we can get more information.
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I love reading because it helps me exercise my mind. Moreover, it helps me building up my grammar, and just like a movie, sometimes I could switch my emotions through the flow of the story. Reading can be, and actually is a stepping stone to success, and diminishes illiteracy in the society. Otherwise, from reading we can learn much, like good conduct, respect and so on.
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I love reading because it makes me feel free,its like a way of escape for me.i love imagining all those scenes the author is trying to create.
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I completely live into the stories, so I love to cuddle up with a good book :D
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Like many of the other posters here, I love to read because it is an escape for me. I love to be transported to another world and to see that world through the characters eyes. Also, I have a thirst for knowledge. I must admit that I have more books on drawing and painting and writing that I can count.
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i read to acquired knowledge form different people and most especially to learn new vocabulary,i read,to learn how to speak and express my self.i love Shakespearean work n i love reading his work,it makes me feel extra ordinary an unique
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To change or transist your outlook
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Its all about learning for me. Everytime I read chances are I learn something new and that satisfies me.
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I started reading as a form of escape.
I used words to get out of my current disatisfying situation to a far away place in my imagination where I could do or be anything.
These days, I still use books for getaways :lol: but more importantly, it reveals the mind of other people to me. It teaches me and above all, helps me to see life in a different perspective.
I love reading
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Reading opens a world away from mine. I meet new people and after a few pages know a lot about them unlike in the real world! I also enjoy different sentence structures and the way placing certain words by one another evokes mental images.
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Elikem wrote:Reading opens a world away from mine. I meet new people and after a few pages know a lot about them unlike in the real world! I also enjoy different sentence structures and the way placing certain words by one another evokes mental images.
Right. It's all about the mental pictures. :D
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I love reading because it kept me busy all time, made me to understand the past history or events and the future. Reading always and understanding made one achieve better goals in life.
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ijebor Idris wrote:I love reading because it kept me busy all time, made me to understand the past history or events and the future. Reading always and understanding made one achieve better goals in life.
Right.
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