How do you view the act of reading?
Something to pass the time. It can be done anywhere.
8(61.5%)
Something to do alone when I have nothing else to do.
1(7.7%)
Something to look forward to and prepare for with a special reading spot or ceremony like tea.
4(30.8%)
Reading is hard for me, and takes equipment like dictionaries or pen and paper.
0(0.0%)
I don't read for pleasure.
0(0.0%)
How many books to you read per month?
Mean: 5.21 Median: 5.5 Std. Dev 3.86
0
2(14.3%)
1
2(14.3%)
2
1(7.1%)
3
1(7.1%)
4
0(0.0%)
5
1(7.1%)
6
1(7.1%)
7
1(7.1%)
8
1(7.1%)
9
0(0.0%)
10
4(28.6%)
Complete this sentence: "My favorite kinds of books are the ones that..."
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junglemonkee- Saruwatari Ayumi
- Quintana Books
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A sacred, joyful duty, more important than sleep or food, and grudgingly interrupted for things like work and socializing.
Only ten books per month? Does that include re-reading a book? If so, the top answer was woefully short of my 20-book-a-month-habit.
And I am at work far too much. But that's my own fault.
It'd be worse by far if I got paid enough to be able to buy new books at the rate at which I could read them. I'd never be able to hold a job.
Well I personally tend to do space-opera. A lot.
But some of that is because I know that I'll be rewarded with something I like, even if the book sucks (which it rarely does because I'm picky about my authors, too).
You mentioned in comments what kind of books: horror, mystery with a darker flavor, some urban fantasy and a smattering of other types of ficton. I don't read nearly as much non-fiction as I'd like, particularly history.
As a matter of personal philosophy, when I get past basic goals like comfort/pleasure/fun, I tend to leap to wanting to learn how and why everything works the way it does. I guess in writing, this frusturates me as someone who's new to writing fiction, because I set rather high standards for what I expect fiction to do.