The Written Word
Recently, I’ve realized that I have almost completely eliminated reading for pleasure from my life. In fact aside from Cujo by Stephen King, the last book I read completely was in March of 2007. That’s slightly more than a year of very little reading. That is a really scary thought.
I recently attempted to re-spark my apparently lost love of reading but it ended in total failure. I attempted all sorts of books; fiction, non-fiction, biographies and historical fiction and yet none of these books stuck. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy them (because I did); it’s just that I was unable to read them all the way through. If I had the time, I could probably read a book all the way through. But once I put a book down, I have trouble picking it up again no matter how much I want to.
I used to be an avid reader of all kinds of books. In grade 6 and 7 I was part of my school’s book club and in grade 7 I won an award. I remember in grade 8 somebody in my class commented that if I was seen without a book, something was wrong. And that wasn’t an exaggeration. I used to read in class, while walking down the hallway, in the washrooms, and during car rides. Sometimes I would give up sleeping in favour of reading. Now I’m here, three years later, rarely picking up a novel.
“I remember in grade 8 somebody in my class commented that if I was seen without a book, something was wrong.”
^^ i remember that
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