Why do you like reading?

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Reading keeps my mind busy, helps me to improve and polish my grammar, lastly, i am confident that it will help me be a good book reviewer.
"Regular reading improves your grammar."
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Reading for me is no less than food for soul. It soothes me. It increases my knowledge to a great level. Morever it gives my imagination a wing. A book teaches you so much that perhaps can never be taught.
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I read first to improve the quality of my writing. Then, reading helps me to connect with people who live far way from me in time and space.
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When I was young, my mom told me "If you can read, you can do anything." I do a lot of reading to learn. Henry Miller once said that "the aim of life is live, and to live means to be aware." I read to know what's going on in the world around me. I read because I'm curious--about everything. And, as many others have said, sometimes I read to escape.
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I like readlng because it open my eyes to things I do not know. Book empowers and give knowlege
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I love reading because it keeps me busy and gives me opportunity to experience things I haven't experienced before. To vision situations, way in and way out.
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I love reading. It seems to me that reading has always been there for me. Some of my earliest memories are sitting on my mom's lap while she read to me. It just seems like something natural to do, like breathing. Being a shy person, books have allowed me to meet people, go places, see different perspectives, go on adventures all while never leaving my own home.
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I read because it is my escape. You can be who you want. Reading is better than movies I think because you have to open your mind and use your imagination on somethings. It help build my vocabulary and helps me when I need down time.
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I love reading because you get to go to a different world. Its an escape from reality.
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books has always been there for me. when life gets hard it was there ro distract me from it all
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I like to lose myself into a good book to escape the real world. This helped greatly when I was being bullied at school and helps now when depression threatens to overwhelm me.
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I like reading because it helps me get lost for a couple of hours in something outside of my own world. Nothing beats the feeling of getting invested in a story and losing track of time. I also use it as a time consuming hobby. When I had dropped out of university and had a couple of years off before returning, I had read a lot of books to occupy myself. I found this was an easy way to keep flexing my “brain muscles” while I wasn’t receiving any type of formal education.
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Just like many people have said before me, I like reading in order to to travel to new places and meet new and interesting people. It is not only an escape but an adventure into new worlds.
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I think the main reason I enjoy reading is because it exposes me to new ideas. Whether it is fiction or non-fiction, the author is presenting their perspective on the world.

I am also fascinated by characters, whether in real life or fictitious. When I am reading a fiction book, I love the narrator's unraveling of the character; their history, what they think and how they act.

I love film and storytelling in general, but with a book, you get to spend relatively more time with the characters. A movie is told in 1.5-3 hours, where a book can take anywhere from a week to a couple of months. With a book, you pick it up for a couple of hours and then return to daily life. You find yourself pondering that character, and their dilemmas and perhaps how you would respond if you were in their shoes. I think with books, there is a level of depth that cannot be achieved through film.
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I love reading because it helps my mental health. I have depression, anxiety, and PTSD. Reading provides a way for me to escape and feel at peace. I love entering new worlds through books! :techie-studyingbrown:
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