Read much?
Aug. 22nd, 2007 10:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidWe are not a nation of readers. I forget that sometimes, with the friends I have, but 25% of USian adults read not a single book last year. The median number was four books; if the non-readers weren't included, it rose to... seven, though gender made a difference, since women read more (nine books) and men less (five).
There are other ways of chopping up the data to see that Southerners read more, as do liberals, and whites, and non-church-attending people. The big genres were religious works, popular fiction, histories, biographies and mysteries, while all other genres were named by less than 5% of readers. Hrm.
I'm even more atypical than I'd thought. I understand being to exhausted to read, choosing only short writings, or having uncompensated-for dyslexia, and so on, but I've found such joy in reading books that it's hard to wrap my brain around not reading anything of length at all. Other people's minds are so fascinating! And really, that's what reading can be, seeing what the author chooses to write as a distorted yet interesting view into zir mind, in what ze creates from thought.
There are other ways of chopping up the data to see that Southerners read more, as do liberals, and whites, and non-church-attending people. The big genres were religious works, popular fiction, histories, biographies and mysteries, while all other genres were named by less than 5% of readers. Hrm.
I'm even more atypical than I'd thought. I understand being to exhausted to read, choosing only short writings, or having uncompensated-for dyslexia, and so on, but I've found such joy in reading books that it's hard to wrap my brain around not reading anything of length at all. Other people's minds are so fascinating! And really, that's what reading can be, seeing what the author chooses to write as a distorted yet interesting view into zir mind, in what ze creates from thought.