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Whether you read a novel to pass time during a commute, or you're reading a peer reviewed journal about progressions in cancer treatment, all of our reading begins with a spark in interest.
You can bet on the fact that as soon as I find uninterrupted leisure time, I'm getting to my reading material. When I do, my handy assistants, Mr. Pillow and and Mrs. Blanket will be there to help me create an ideal environment.
Reading is food for the brain for me. I'm inclined to choose a good book over a good movie. When I read for information, I take comfort in knowing a trusted book or news article helps me to stay informed and up to date, especially if the author can communicate clearly.
"At my school, books were places we could go to discover the figments of an author's imagination, or travel through time and space, even."
Start them off young.
Like most children, I was first exposed to reading at the pre-k grade level. At my school, books were places we could go to discover the figments of an author's imagination, or travel through time and space, even. My love and joy for reading didn't come until I began to read books from which a popular movie may have been based. One perfect example of this was my fascination with The NeverEnding Story. At 7 or 8 years old, I could remember three things about that movie that inspired me to read it's novel: The little boys in the movie were cute, the movie's theme was centered around a mystical book, and there was no such thing as an Iphone around to distract me.
"In the early 90's, there was no such thing as going to Amazon and ordering a book through the click of a link."
As soon as the book fair came to my local school, I went, hoping to connect with the character Atreyu through that book. Needless to say, the book fair didn't carry The Neverending Story, neither did the school library and that meant I never actually got a chance to read the book. In the early 90's, there was no such thing as going to Amazon and ordering the book through the click of a link. Even if I could, my parents weren't the book purchasing type anyway. They were the "wait for the bookmobile to come by in the summer" type. My book fair purchases were limited to .25 erasers and pencils. Reading was not asked of me but school made it necessary for achievement with no passion required. It took movies such as The Neverending Story or The Secret Garden to get my head into the books, which sub-sequentially gave me a passion for reading that I hope never subsides.
-Tina P