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Reading For Fun Is Plummeting in The US, And Experts Are Concerned
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My friend recently started reading after seeing me read so often. She kept bragging about how fast she can read pages and I was telling her to relax its not a race just enjoy the book. Fastforward a few days and she got like 30pages in and gave up. It was an ok book, thief of time by Terry Pratchett.
I think for a lot of people reading is so mentally different from what they're used to that its very hard to do let alone to find pleasure in.
Just here to object to calling anything by Pratchett just an "ok book". Sacrilege, I say!
30 pages in a few days... Fast... Wut.
They get this questionable ideas from the internet. I read # books in a month, great achievement indeed! Do they have any fun in that. Of course. 30 pages is an assay, it's not a month of read. I have seen the idea of reading as something strange. Either elevated to the level of a high level activity that smart people do, or something that must be done to give yourself the tone of a robust and decent reader.
Not.
It's a casual activity that anyobdy can do at their pace. I love reading, when I'm in the midst of a reading slump i jump to some other hobby of mine, and i come back even stronger. In the end reading is a skill. Read things that catch your eye but learn to stay for the long run.