Reading habit should be cultivated in young minds...Whenever i hear this or something to the effect i go crazy....really?why should it be cultivated...I think it should be banned it gives so much pleasure, takes you to another word, makes you forget all your worries.It should be illegal right?
When someone says they don't like to read i truly truly cannot comprehend it.How is it possible? If you don't like one book there are million others to try.Books are my journey to other worlds.I have traveled with the hobbits and roam the castle with harry potter gang and i have live in a faraway place where Barbara Cartland makes it come alive just for me alone and have had an adrenalin rush with harry Bosch and seen the day of FBI agents with Catherine Coulter just with books.I can get myself into a completely different world(escapism) with just a flick of the wrist.I conceived my child now 2 and half years after 5 years of infertility treatments and a difficult pregnancy Complete Bed rest through pregnancy and how would i have gone through it without books.When my girl was just a little baby, I read her chronicles of narnia...My voice was enough for her.I was scared may be she won't like books and lose the best fun on earth.But so far so good.She's interested in her board books now.And i guess(can only guess at this point) that she understands the possibility of books taking her to new worlds.I see the dreamy and thoughtful eyes when I tell her a story and i thank my own mom(who's also a reader) for introducing me to books and my father(reader too) for getting me my first novel(Tamil : Ponniyin selvan) in spite of my mom's protest that I was too young for a big novel that size...Reading is a culture in our whole family except one of my cousins who thinks it is "uncool".I really have to probe her a little more and find out what her problem is.
When someone says they don't like to read i truly truly cannot comprehend it.How is it possible? If you don't like one book there are million others to try.Books are my journey to other worlds.I have traveled with the hobbits and roam the castle with harry potter gang and i have live in a faraway place where Barbara Cartland makes it come alive just for me alone and have had an adrenalin rush with harry Bosch and seen the day of FBI agents with Catherine Coulter just with books.I can get myself into a completely different world(escapism) with just a flick of the wrist.I conceived my child now 2 and half years after 5 years of infertility treatments and a difficult pregnancy Complete Bed rest through pregnancy and how would i have gone through it without books.When my girl was just a little baby, I read her chronicles of narnia...My voice was enough for her.I was scared may be she won't like books and lose the best fun on earth.But so far so good.She's interested in her board books now.And i guess(can only guess at this point) that she understands the possibility of books taking her to new worlds.I see the dreamy and thoughtful eyes when I tell her a story and i thank my own mom(who's also a reader) for introducing me to books and my father(reader too) for getting me my first novel(Tamil : Ponniyin selvan) in spite of my mom's protest that I was too young for a big novel that size...Reading is a culture in our whole family except one of my cousins who thinks it is "uncool".I really have to probe her a little more and find out what her problem is.
