<p>Like many students on CC, I am a voracious reader and credit much of my academic success to beginning to read at an early age and continuing to do so throughout my school career. As I have found myself in more advanced classes, however, I find myself with less time to read for pleasure, meaning that I often try and pack books into breaks and weekends, missing out on "classics" as I read books that I know I will definitely enjoy.</p>
<p>I found this site earlier today: <a href="http://www.dailylit.com%5B/url%5D">http://www.dailylit.com</a> and was intrigued by its offer. For free, every day, snippets of selected classics will be sent to your inbox, so you can read a small installment of the book. It may take a year or more to get through the works of literature, but I doubt that in any other format I could find the time to get through Ana Karenina or Moby Dick.</p>
<p>Anyways, it's an interesting concept, and I thought some of the more literary-minded posters on the board may be interested in the site.</p>
<p>Alternate focus: How do y'all find time to read during the high school year? What are your preferences? Dense fiction to put you to sleep? Best-selling non-fiction to drop references to in class? Reread your favorite books again and again?</p>
<p>Thanks so much for sharing this - I know exactly how you feel about reading, and the website looks fantastic.</p>
<p>When I don't have time to read anything else, I try to pick lighter "classics" to read in 10-minute spurts before bed - things like On the Road or The Count of Monte Cristo, chapter by chapter. I also read a lot of poetry and short stories, and some modern drama if I have a little more spare time (I can finish a play in about an hour).</p>
<p>My Lit teacher gives us reading time, half the period the first class of every week. It helps me finish books more quickly, because it's actually really rare for me to get a solid block of time to read in.</p>
<p>I have a 2 hour commute to and from school, so I try to read then. But other than that, I'll just read for an hour or so before bed on weekends.</p>
<p>I really don't read as much as I would like during the school year, though. I try to make up for that during vacations and summers, but it doesn't really replace the 9 months I've lost.</p>
<p>I used a similar website to sign up for The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton about a month and a half ago. Didn't work for me. I have 30 installments just sitting in my inbox.</p>
<p>that site sounds great, and I'm totally signing up. I feel the same way about the advanced class = less reading time...last year, I was reading like 3 books a week, now I'm down to a book a week in junior year! I try to fit it in when I used to sleep, but sometimes I need that to study or just veg. </p>
<p>What do I read? Well, it really depends. Good books! I'm not one of those one-genre people..but I like realistic fiction the best overall. Also, well-written science fiction, historical fiction, thrillers, and horror. Also, I feel the same classic/entertainment book struggle too...since I want to be more well-read classically for college, I've been trying to take about 2-3 classics along with the stack of 4-5 entertainment books I get. Like, I have Dracula to read after The Nanny Diaries...As for books for classes, I tried to read 1776 and wanted to kill myself after a few pages, so no, I'm not for nonfiction. I am probably going to get Beowulf out for my own education, because my crappy school will only do excerpts. </p>
<p>Thanks for the tip for dailylit.com....what are your favorite books, btw?</p>
<p>I read during meals as it seems to be my only free time. This year I've only been able to read two books since September. Well two books I wanted to read plus 3 required for AP Lit.</p>
<p>dailylit.com sounds like an interesting idea but it probably won't work for me. knowing me, i'll wind up distracted by my other e-mails, by wikipedia, youtube, and facebook. plus, i dislike reading such short installments. they'll probably drive me crazy and cause me to go take crime&punishment off my bookshelf and read the whole thing through.</p>
<p>usually i read during the weekends or right afterschool before i start my homework. AP eng lit is really helping me read too. thank God for my english teacher! we're not going to overanalyze the two books we had to read over the summer (beowulf and the things they carried) like the other ap eng. class will have to.</p>
<p>ditto verbivorous (such a great name): Sounds like a good idea in theory, but considering I subscribed to a word-a-day vocab email thingy last year and i never read them anymore, I think i'd probably stop reading them pretty soon. </p>
<p>I find time to read over the weekends or before I go to bed for about half an hour each night. I'm trying to read every Vonnegut book ever published before the end of senior year, and I'm only on the 3rd of i don't know, a lot.</p>
<p>thats really cool. im incredibly busy too. sometimes when i catch myself on facebook, i logoff and grab sense and sensibility. think of it like the nike slogan. just do it. :-)</p>
<p>I like the site. I hardly ever get enjoyment reading time. I know how you feel. I like how it's very broken down at the site, easy to find the time read a few parts. They have a lot of books too, usally those kind of sites are very limited.</p>