*depressed sigh*
Jan. 2nd, 2005 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I really feel bad. And this is embarassing, because I'm going to sound arrogant.
How on earth can people feel proud of only reading a book a week, or less, even? I can read a book just going to class, and another coming home. It's a sad week when I don't manage to read even one book. High school, I would take out six books from the library at once, return all six within two days. That's not counting the books they gave me, and the ones I read while in the library during lunch. Is it normal to read so little? Is it that people read slowly, or that they have other things to do? I don't get it.
I feel weird now. Like the freak here.
Well, I did tell you not to click. Don't blame me.
How on earth can people feel proud of only reading a book a week, or less, even? I can read a book just going to class, and another coming home. It's a sad week when I don't manage to read even one book. High school, I would take out six books from the library at once, return all six within two days. That's not counting the books they gave me, and the ones I read while in the library during lunch. Is it normal to read so little? Is it that people read slowly, or that they have other things to do? I don't get it.
I feel weird now. Like the freak here.
Well, I did tell you not to click. Don't blame me.
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Date: 2005-01-02 11:44 pm (UTC)However, other things have made it so I read less now... I spend far too much time reading textbooks and such. (and all the other fun filled school activities. xP) I know if I spent less time online as well I'd have more time to read. heh Unfortuntely, the net is quite addictive.
Also I like quiet when I'm reading. I've always had to help take care of my siblings, and they are so noisy all the time, that it makes it hard to read with them around. I spend a lot of time fighting with them. xP
I tend to read fast, but I'm not a speed reader. Speed reading I'm taking as the people who don't read word for word, they read by phrases? Where's the fun in that? o.O I've never timed myself on reading, but I can finish a rather large novel in a day. Smaller novels go pretty fast. It all depends on the book. Like for example, I'm reading Tolkien right now, and it's taking me a while to read it, mostly because his writing makes me want to read it at a slower pace, enjoy it... I picture the things in my head, and I like to sit back and think about it.
Other books I fly through, and finish in an hour or two.
It's not freakish that you read so much though. I envy the time that you can devote to reading though. n.n