What is your favorite thing about reading?
What is your favorite thing about reading?
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getting lost in a book
For me it is feeling like I know the characters. That’s the mark of a good book for me, if I care about what happens to the characters.
I get invested in the story and fall in/out of love with characters and it’s like living in another world just for a time where I can forget about the chores around the house or the stuff that needs to be done, like others have said, it’s an escape!
Exactly! Especially when it’s so well written that you can visually see the world and the people and you feel like you are there as a character.
Making new friends (the book characters). Those who don’t read don’t really understand how/why I can care so much for fictional characters, but don’t find it weird when they do the same to television/movie characters. Also, I run into so many people who think reading is “boring” and “lame”, even a “waste of time” – I actually had someone say “ew” when I told him I love to read. Something about the exclusivity makes me happy; even if I only have one physical person to talk books with and millions online to chat with, it’s something I can keep to myself.
YES! Absolutely, exactly how I feel about the characters being friends. In one of my books that I’m reading (for probably the 11th time) the “stressful” part is coming up, and even though I *know* what happens, and that it’s all good, I’m *still* like “No, Sarah! Don’t do it!”
I have to ask, since we share the “friends” thing, what genre is your favorite?
I typically read romance, but I’ve been known to dabble in fantasy, paranormal, suspense, thriller, and even horror. I just can’t read autobiographies or practically anything based on true events, and I’m not a big fan of historical reads, whether they be non-fiction or fiction. And, just curious, by “No, Sarah! Don’t do it!” Are you referring to the author Sarah J Maas or a character?
A character. 🙂 Miss Sarah Matthews from A Maiden of Mayfair. It’s a historical fiction that takes place in the mid 1800s in England.
? Oh wow, that made my whole comment look extremely rude, lol. I commend you, though – I wish I could get into that genre, at least it might educate me!
@Kristina, no not rude at all! We all have our preferences. I, for one, am not a fan of the horror/thriller stories. I don’t usually read the “romance” branded books, although there is a LOT of love stories and romance in the books I read. Basically they are stories that usually have a bit of struggles or adventure and there’s always a love story of some sort, they just take place in a different time and place. Like the gold fields of the Yukon during the Gold Rush, or 1800s England, or the prairies of the US during the pioneer age, or Montana or Wyoming during the stage-coach era.
I’m the same, I have to have some kind of romantic plot in whatever I’m reading. I have read many books without it and, honestly, it’s just hard for me to get into anything without one. But I love that people can have so many different opinions, but still have a kind of bond due to our love of reading!
I definitely learn from them, in fact, once in a college history class, my professor asked (expecting to stump everyone) how they would have kept ice frozen through the summer before there were freezers. I raised my hand and explained perfectly how they would pack large blocks of ice in sawdust to keep them frozen. He just looked at me for a minute and asked “*HOW* did you know that?” I looked back at him and said “I read.” lol (Obviously not everyone who reads could be expected to know that, but since it came up in a book I read, I was able to answer a bit sarcastically since he was so shocked that I could have known.)
I agree! It’s great that we can bond over WHY we love to read even if we disagree about WHAT we like to read. 🙂
I absolutely love your first comment, I can imagine a group of readers standing behind you with fists in the air, screaming “bookworm power!”. ?
Love it!
My favorite is that i get to be sucked into the world of my books like I’m taking a trip and i get to stay in the comfort of my own home
Getting to know different characters to live in different worlds with different authorities
You cannot help but appreciate the writer if he or she has beautifully put down an idea. The greatest thing about reading is to be able to escape the restrictions imposed by time and space. You can read about someone who lived hundreds of years ago on a land so far from you. It’s magical.
“The greatest thing about reading is to be able to escape the restrictions imposed by time and space.”
I absolutely LOVE this explanation!!
Thank you:)
Learning…
Makes me happy ?
Eradicating my own stupidity and ignorance)
getting an escape from reality where happy endings are real
Being able to travel to new worlds without spending a lot of money and being the hero.
Becoming absorbed in worlds where the good guy wins, things make sense and happy endings are real
Getting to travel to times and places I can’t physically go to-and meeting interesting people on the same journey
holding a book in my hands that way i can read it manys time
Learning new things and having a break from Real Life
Just love it, love getting lost in a book & forgetting the world for a while ?? xx
To live another life
Passing the pages, smell the pages and.. I feel something weird, like a smoothness feeling when I read without interruptions and totally concentrated, that’s the best part.
Getting to experience different lives, places, people
It’s like watching a movie in my head when the story is really good. It’s the best escape
Escape
Being able to escape
It gives me a reason to live and keep going,it’s kind of a way out of depression and anxiety
I’m glad that reading helps with your depression and anxiety. I’ve dealt with both of those myself, and they are really tough.
For 2 to 6 hours every night, I am in a different world
It takes me away. I love reading now, but I read the most when i was deployed and other rough times of my life.
Being able to leave my world. And set into someone elses. Losing all connection with the outside world. Wishing that you can get to the end of your book and have a happily ever after, just as your favorite character.
Escaping reality
Reality
Satisfies my curiosity
By reading I Build my own world of thinking..
getting lost in a story
Meet up new characters
Go to other places, live other lives, learn a bit more of everything.
Get to know something new everytime I read
Whenever I asked my Mom how she knew something, she would say she read about it.
That the book plays like a movie in my head…
Take me to a world where I am free..
Disappearing into my book world, but being able to come back to my reality by putting my book down.
Getting lost in the story is the most magical and relaxing thing of all time
Being able to transport into a different time & place.
Escaping reality and stepping into a whole new world that makes it so easy to forget how depressed you are with things
Non-fiction to learn, fiction to escape, and biography for the voyeurism.
Its upto me…
Escaping from life and being in a different world. I’m where no one can touch me. I’m somewhere completely different. Books teleport me away from it all.
The imagination of being in the book actually picturing it in your mind trying to figure out what going to happen next before you read on
Being sucked in a world of imagination
Live in other people shoes, in other worlds, with magic and romance and the thrill of it all is that I can read for hours on end and still want more.