*depressed sigh*
Jan. 2nd, 2005 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conuly
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 05:09 pm (UTC)Of course, if I would get off of LJ I would have more. Hehehe.
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:11 pm (UTC)If you're a freak, there's a pair of us.
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:13 pm (UTC)Of course, I really am a freak. I read whenever I'm not doing anything else, and sometimes when I am. o_O
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:18 pm (UTC)I'm the same way, though it does take me longer to finish longer books. I'm not entirely sure of the time scale that you give because you don't say what sorts of books you usually read on the commute. There's quite a difference between, say, Tolstoy and Tamora Pierce.
But no matter the books, I think that the overwhelming majority of people don't read much more than reading slowly. My little brother reads about a book a week, but he would rather watch TV than read, so he only ends up doing it sometimes. And, of course, you probably do read quicker than most...
Umm. I'm too spacy to be making comments today. I paused for a moment to listen to the music and totally forgot what I was going to say.
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:18 pm (UTC)Is that a non-exact quote / rephrasing from somewhere? Emily Dickinson comes to mind (the "I'm nobody! Who are you?" poem).
If it wasn't intended, it's still a cool coincidence *L*
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:21 pm (UTC)I'm nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too? Then there's a pair of us, don't tell. They'd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody, how public like a frog! Telling your name the livelong day to an ever admiring bog!
but with line breaks and all.
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:21 pm (UTC)Or maybe they just don't derive pleasure from reading (or perhaps from reading books.) It takes all sorts.
I read voraciously from early childhood, but once I hit upper-school and started reading books I didn't like because I had to, my reading habits changed drastically. These days the number of books I get through fluctuates. If I spent less time online, no doubt I'd read more. Currently I'm on a downswing because in November my schedule was crazy and reading before I went to bed would take away sleep I couldn't afford to lose. (Reading on the commute was not an option due to travelsickness. And back in England I always walk everywhere, so reading is out for that too.)
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:23 pm (UTC)Nonsense. What an unhealthy attitude! *I* do not read while walking (usually) because *I* read too much as it is. You're not so unfortunate, and can do as you please.
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:25 pm (UTC)I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you - Nobody - Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise - you know!
How dreary - to be - Somebody!
How public - like a Frog -
To tell one's name - the livelong June -
To an admiring Bog!
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Date: 2005-01-02 05:25 pm (UTC)How can you live like that?
Meanwhile, you can't see my floor for the books, we've got boxes of them stacked in three different rooms in the house, and I think they're the only thing still holding the attic together. Growing up, I routinely was sent to bring outgrown books to school. I think I donated a good hundred or more to my intermediate school.
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