I am not even going to ask why read this standing outside a bar, I am not.
Your point about parents reading to you (or their kids) is so important. My Mum always keeps saying I read so much because they kept reading me when I was little. And really, this is just one of those things that gets the ground to build on at home. Kind of like manners. If they don't teach you those at home, you're not going to get interested in them at school either. (Unless you're a ~rebel.) Oh I know that feeling of being stuck when learning to read, I think I had it too. There was just a time when it felt like no matter how much I tried I couldn't get anywhere and it was so frustrating. I guess that it only felt like it took forever to learn because remember how it felt like a year laster forever when you were a kid and looking for something? Must have been the same effect.
I love it that so many people on my flist have been those "read all the time" people. I did it too, to the point that my parents started to be annoyed by it since I insisted on reading when we were visiting people and everything. Haha, I don't think I've ever read while brushing my teeth. I do remember we did these reading journals in elementary school and it was kind of a competition who reads the most books during one semester. There was this one book every single person in my class read probably more than three times. I don't even know why, it wasn't particularly good or anything even.
It is really hard for me to read during the day too. Unless I'm on the train or trying to kill time somewhere I only read during the evening, before I'm going to bed. And I think I said this to someone else too, but I've noticed that I keep reading more when I'm traveling, I just need to have something to occupy my time on the planes and trains and such. (I think I'll need to go take a look at your book list to see if there is something I might want to read. I keep one on my LJ too.)
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Your point about parents reading to you (or their kids) is so important. My Mum always keeps saying I read so much because they kept reading me when I was little. And really, this is just one of those things that gets the ground to build on at home. Kind of like manners. If they don't teach you those at home, you're not going to get interested in them at school either. (Unless you're a ~rebel.)
Oh I know that feeling of being stuck when learning to read, I think I had it too. There was just a time when it felt like no matter how much I tried I couldn't get anywhere and it was so frustrating. I guess that it only felt like it took forever to learn because remember how it felt like a year laster forever when you were a kid and looking for something? Must have been the same effect.
I love it that so many people on my flist have been those "read all the time" people. I did it too, to the point that my parents started to be annoyed by it since I insisted on reading when we were visiting people and everything.
Haha, I don't think I've ever read while brushing my teeth. I do remember we did these reading journals in elementary school and it was kind of a competition who reads the most books during one semester. There was this one book every single person in my class read probably more than three times. I don't even know why, it wasn't particularly good or anything even.
It is really hard for me to read during the day too. Unless I'm on the train or trying to kill time somewhere I only read during the evening, before I'm going to bed. And I think I said this to someone else too, but I've noticed that I keep reading more when I'm traveling, I just need to have something to occupy my time on the planes and trains and such. (I think I'll need to go take a look at your book list to see if there is something I might want to read. I keep one on my LJ too.)