Do you still read for fun despite having a busy schedule?

<p>Title says it all.</p>

<p>Haven’t read a book for pleasure in a while</p>

<p>I do, but it’s harder to find time. Almost done with my current book. I hope to maintain reading for pleasure all year.</p>

<p>Haven’t had time in a long while.</p>

<p>Only during summer break. I’ve only read like four books this summer though.</p>

<p>^^^^^^I must say, my young chap, that reading “for fun” as you call it, can be quite beneficial to your future endeavors. I encourage it most vigorously!</p>

<p>Of course. And not just for fun but I feel I benefit from it.
Although during periods when I’m occupied with exams/competitions/performances, I do not do it much.</p>

<p>Reading for fun is for chumps. :)</p>

<p>No. But if I am allowed to pick a book of choice for a book report I guess that counts</p>

<p>Reading is ****ing lame.</p>

<p>I read to learn stuff (not textbooks and such…) but they are for fun as well…I spend more time reading than doing hmwk lol</p>

<p>I didn’t really during junior year and not much sophomore year either. And I didn’t read books before sophomore year. Hmm. Now that I come to think about it I have no idea what I’m typing.</p>

<p>I read for fun with 5 AP classes/a job last year. It’s also a great way to meet girls :)</p>

<p>On a serious note though, I met two of my best friends because we had a mutual interest of reading a lot, and we ‘clicked’ because both of us had read this obscure book that nobody had never heard of and the book was phenomenal. When I told her I had read it, she at first didn’t even believe me. However, towards the end of senior year I started partying/drinking 3 or 4 nights a week and stopped reading haha</p>

<p>It’s definitely sad that once we hit high school, time to read automatically diminishes significantly. How do they expect us to improve writing and reading comprehension and get 2400’s…</p>

<p>However, I did read the Hunger Games over summer break whilst ignoring my AP bio summer assignment, AP English homework (which was also, ironically, reading, though it was Catch-22, not exactly “fun” for me), and APUSH essays. Reading for fun, for me, is reading w/o all that analysis…sort of like reading stuff that’s pure indulgence. Like, watching a movie. Not really improving vocabulary, though you could push it as that, and not really improving writing. </p>

<p>It’s rather funny how fast those kinds of books read for fun pass in contrast to those more boring ones in school (er…not boring…complex, yes…). The next minute I know, I’ve already read 100 more pages, and I just finished the book in 3 hours. Reading laborious, tedious, boring books (I’m not saying all of them assigned ones are boring, just ones that are laborious and tedious :slight_smile: has time passing much slower. Well, you learn more though. There are occasionally, books that are challenging yet very fun. Very occasionally. </p>

<p>Reading for fun should be for everyone…you can learn so much having reading as a recreation.</p>

<p>I use to read a lot in middle school, and in 7th and 8th grade, I read like 25 books each year(I think I phrased it incorrectly but oh well). Now, I don’t, sadly. I read blogs and articles and somewhat educational websites(TVTropes? Blogs?), so I guess that counts for something, right? I like newspapers, too. And, uh, do Algebra problems count? They have letters. :P</p>

<p>I’m disappointed at how people don’t love to read as much as I do. Not only on CC but in reality. We have to keep a reading log throughout this year, and some people have only read a few books. That weren’t even challenging reads.</p>

<p>I read a lot before high school, but, as some people have said, I kind of stopped after high school started :x there just isn’t as much time.</p>

<p>Everyday. Currently rereading Marquez’s Love In The Time Of Cholera. What a classic.</p>

<p>I wish. Unfortunately too many classes + already get tons of reading from my AP English class.</p>

<p>YES, oh yes.
But I can only read when I can get to a library every week.
The sad part was when I’d skimmed through most of the books in the library and found very few books that I hadn’t read that were actually interesting.</p>

<p>Oh, and Hunger Games? PHENOMENAL. Waiting for the third book to hit the library.</p>