Why read?

[BarTopDancer]

I read for enjoyment, entertainment, to learn and for kicks.

Currently I am consumed with school reading, most of which is applied to life.What I do with non-required reading depends on the book and why it was read. Sometimes the story has a life-applicable meaning, sometimes I was just happy to get through it. I love buying books and keep them all (or did until they were destroyed in storage). My favorite books were dog-eared, falling apart at the bindings. Books I found boring or struggled through appeared to be brand new.

I found the Lord of the Rings trilogy painful to read even though I loved the movies. I was skipping sentences and had to re-read so much of the back story because I was just going through the motions of reading it. But I can tear through the majority of the Jack Ryan Tom Clancy books in a day or two.

I am looking forward to reading The Long Hard Road Out of Hell when I am done with this semester.