There are loads!! Enjoyment is a big one! Chance to escape from my world, learn how others think but one of my main ones is to keep my brain awake and functioning – close relatives have dementia and I want to do my best to not get it – I figure developing my thought process is a good way to help.
Reading a book you’re desperate to read is also a good way to motivate!!
I tend to live in my head anyway so instead of obsessing on the latest thing I hear in the news or what ever, I choose to read. I also think so much of what is on tv is awful so I will read. How else could I sit through an entire day of bowl games yesterday? Hahaha?
I read to learn about history, other cultures and religious/ritual systems, world mythology, and archaeology. I also arm-chair travel to countries East and West through books. And I love a well-written mystery–Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes are my favorites, but I have discovered modern mysteries that are real humdingers. And yes, I read novels: Russian and English classics in particular.
I read to my daughter and my motivation is teaching her to read lol, she’s four months old and she helps me hold open the books and sits real still while I read to her
Learning about new things or people, escaping reality, getting absorbed in a story, exercising my brain, solving a mystery along with the characters (I read a lot of crime books). Different types of books give me different types of pleasure. For example, I just read a memoir about prison by a federal prisoner, and I’m so glad I’m not in prison!
I would die inside and be absolutely lost without books. Books keep me warm and fullfilled inside my soul. Books give me a hand to get over my problems, a door to escape feom reality. I don’t need “motivations”. I can’t imagine my life without reading…
i want getting motivated
There are loads!! Enjoyment is a big one! Chance to escape from my world, learn how others think but one of my main ones is to keep my brain awake and functioning – close relatives have dementia and I want to do my best to not get it – I figure developing my thought process is a good way to help.
Reading a book you’re desperate to read is also a good way to motivate!!
Escape
get knowledge and it’s fun ))
Precise and concise ?
I tend to live in my head anyway so instead of obsessing on the latest thing I hear in the news or what ever, I choose to read. I also think so much of what is on tv is awful so I will read. How else could I sit through an entire day of bowl games yesterday? Hahaha?
Me too! I read all day while my husband watched football
I’m the same!!!
Growth in goodness, rise above shit
Pleasure.
Self improvement
I like reading and I have an inquisitive mind.
Relaxation, and to escape reality.
That is like asking me what is my motivation to breathe. To live.
I can’t remember a time I didn’t read…..I live inside my head anyway (a conscious choice) pure escapism – as is reading.
Escape
I read to learn about history, other cultures and religious/ritual systems, world mythology, and archaeology. I also arm-chair travel to countries East and West through books. And I love a well-written mystery–Agatha Christie and Sherlock Holmes are my favorites, but I have discovered modern mysteries that are real humdingers. And yes, I read novels: Russian and English classics in particular.
Imagining movies based on those in my head…
I love reading. I like learning new things about history, or imagining myself in the story.
I read to my daughter and my motivation is teaching her to read lol, she’s four months old and she helps me hold open the books and sits real still while I read to her
Really 😀 😀
Yes 🙂 she’s an amazing little girl, for having sturge-weber syndrome and epilepsy, she’s a little angel and does amazing things for her age 🙂
Enjoyment, learning about new places and things, broadening my horizons by reading about others’ thoughts and experiences.
My motivations are the same as Kathy’s…
Pleasure. My love of reading a break from full work week love my job .. just sometimes a break is needed
Relaxation, fights boredom, breaks up monotony of life and is great for fighting insomnia plus I just love to do it
Escape mostly
Relaxing from hardworking week ? my way of rest
knowledge thirst..
Pleasure and learning. It’s impossible to read without learning something. If your heart is in the right place, it makes you a better person.
Pleasure. My get away
peace
Pleasure, learning, and escape
Escape, peace and nourishment. I honestly feel a bit unbalanced if I haven’t read in the week.
All the stories <3
To educate myself and I think I’m a very inquisitive person and I’m just curious about everything.
I just love reading
don’t need motivation just love reaqding
Avoiding being addicted to screens, learning something new.
Escape my life.
So in can buy more
Simply because I like it.
Learning about new things or people, escaping reality, getting absorbed in a story, exercising my brain, solving a mystery along with the characters (I read a lot of crime books). Different types of books give me different types of pleasure. For example, I just read a memoir about prison by a federal prisoner, and I’m so glad I’m not in prison!
I want to escape reality for a while.
Fiction- pure enjoyment
Non fiction- educational
I enjoy it. Same reason why anybody has a hobby
Escape 🙂
Because Dad’s gonna kill me.Just kidding!!! For escape from reality!!
Escape…
Escape, pleasure and my love for books. I’m so excited about the books I’m reading and planning to read.
I read for knowledge, wisdom and motivation
Enjoyment
Escape from this shitty reality
Thanks for all your answers, you inspire me ???
Pleasure, enjoyment, learning, relaxing and above all I love reading
Too enjoy and escape
Escape and relax
Escape and relax
It helps me relax
ESCAPE FROM LIFE SOMETIMES HAHAHA FROM REALITY.,
Because it feels good, and sometimes I learn things.
I think it is in my genes! I have LOVED reading more than any other activity since I learned how to read at age 4.
To escape, to have diffent life exsparinces, to travel.
Time out in another world, to explore what makes people tick, and to learn new things.
I just like to hear other people’s stories of life.
End boredom?
I love reading! Im blessed working in a library .
I love reading because I can learn new thing,explore the world with out leaving home.
Learning about things!
…entertainment, educational, edutainment…n sometimes I don’t noe why…
I’m lazy and would rather read that do the dishes
It’s as essential to me as breathing.
I would die inside and be absolutely lost without books. Books keep me warm and fullfilled inside my soul. Books give me a hand to get over my problems, a door to escape feom reality. I don’t need “motivations”. I can’t imagine my life without reading…
To escape, to be entertained, to learn, to fuel my imagination and live in another life, the reasons are endless.
Relaxation
That feeling you get when you finally finish a book. Plus I enjoy escaping into a different world
I have spurts where I want to read all the time & then sometimes a few minutes each day. Just depends on my mood
To escape reality
Being awake