I sponsor a contest in my newsletter each month. For February, in honor of Valentine’s Day, I asked my subscribers to answer the question, “What do you love about reading?” Below are some of the responses. If you want to comment with your own reason, please do. If you’d like to subscribe to my newsletter, sign up before March 1st. to be notified of the next contest. You can sign up at https://debbiedelouise.com or send your email to me at debbiewriter@yahoo.com, and I can add you to the list.
Happy Valentine’s Day. Who needs chocolate, when you can savor a good book?
Reasons People Love to Read . . . .
Books are food for my soul. They inspire, uplift, occasionally depress, teach, and entertain me all at the same time. They allow you to escape and use your imagination. Books give you the chance to live someone else’s life and learn from their mistakes so that you don’t make those same mistakes in reality. The really good ones can teach you about what is important in life, and how what one person does affects those around them. They make you realize that, behind every person, there is a mind, a heart, and thoughts. The really good ones change my life, change my outlook on things, or make me want to be a better person. Reading is such an intimate experience because literature affects everyone in different ways and we all envision the stories different ways. The book comes from one mind, but ends up touching hundreds of other minds.
I love that reading can transport you to new, exciting worlds. With a good book, it’s easy to imagine yourself right there in the story with the characters, and I feel that even if you have a bad day, reading can still cheer you up.
Reading takes me away without leaving the house and with a series it’s like being with old friends.
I love to read because I do not get to travel and with reading I can visit many places. I also like to feel like I’m part of the main character’s life while I’m reading.
There are so many things I love about reading but I think my favorite is the chance to relax and step into another world!
The one thing I love most about reading is that it relaxes me and takes me away from all my stress. I can get into a book and forget everything else.
I love reading because your brain is engaged in solving puzzles from words to crimes.
I love to relax in a book. Meet new people and see their lives. I might even be able to solve a mystery.
I love reading because It’s so cozy!
One of the many things I love about reading is that I can sit down with a nice beverage, get comfortable, and lose myself in a place totally removed from my life and the troubles of the day.
Books can take me places I can never go on my own…make me cry, make me laugh, and scare me…they offered protection when I needed to shut out the rest of the world and helped me learn to deal with life doles out, whether it be good or bad. And I guess you can say reading furthered my education…and then some.
I love to read & have been reading since I was 5 years old. I love the chance to experience other worlds, other cultures, other times in history.
I think my main reasons why I love reading is it’s a great escape (better than TV) and I love learning…books are a great way to learn about other places, people, ways of life etc.
What I love about reading is I use it as an entertainment and escape.
What I love about reading is that I can be someone or somewhere else. I learn something new from every book I read.
I love reading because you can go anywhere and be immersed in that tale!
Reading is the ultimate escape.
Why do you love reading?
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