Shocking, right? As a history major and an avid writer, I guess I am the odd ball that has never really had a strong affinity towards books. The joke goes that as an elementary school student, I knew that someday I would become a history major at an elite college and decided that I would save my “reading” for then. This semester, I have tested the limits of what is physically readable for a human being. My record is 680 pages in a week (mind you, this was not all the reading that was assigned) with most weeks averaging in at 600 pages. I guess if you could foresee your future as being glued in front of a book (and not always the most interesting or easy book) for 10 plus hours a week, you may have also thought twice about reading up a storm as a child.
My friends were recently having a conversation about how much they read as young children. Stories were swapped about reading under the covers with a flashlight past their bedtime and sneaking books to read during classes in school. Amongst them, they have exhausted almost the entire young adult and children series in the library- Twilight, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Redwall, The Chronicles of Narnia, etc. Unlike them, I do not have fond memories of reading storybooks as a child. Confession: I was not a big reader growing up and if anything, I did not actually like reading.
Shocking, right? As a history major and an avid writer, I guess I am the odd ball that has never really had a strong affinity towards books. The joke goes that as an elementary school student, I knew that someday I would become a history major at an elite college and decided that I would save my “reading” for then. This semester, I have tested the limits of what is physically readable for a human being. My record is 680 pages in a week (mind you, this was not all the reading that was assigned) with most weeks averaging in at 600 pages. I guess if you could foresee your future as being glued in front of a book (and not always the most interesting or easy book) for 10 plus hours a week, you may have also thought twice about reading up a storm as a child.
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