I used to be a reader

[kareina]

When I was a child I spent most of my time with a nose in a book. This form of childhood mostly continued until my current decade--while I developed many other hobbies and interests over the years I still always found lots of time to spend curled up with a book. There exists no record of how many books I read in those days, but there are hundreds of books on my shelves, most of them read many times, because I have always been an addicted re-reader. At a guess I would say that I re-read four books for every one new book I read.

However, starting in 2005 I started keeping track of what I was reading. Just in time to track a huge decrease in how much I have been reading. Last year I managed only 12 books! (eight of which were in Swedish). This year isn't looking much better. I just finished my second book of the year, and the first one barely counts, since I finished it on the 6th of January, after 207 days of reading it.

Today's book completed was Kalle och choklad fabriken (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), a book I read many times in English as a child. In fact, as a child I often read it at one sitting. The Swedish version, on the other hand, just took me 57 days to complete! That hardly counts as reading at all...

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[kareina.livejournal.com]

It is an option, but I have never liked listening to things when I can't see the speaker because of my hearing problem. Therefore I have never developed the habit--I have, occasionally, listened to Harry Potter audio books in Swedish, since David had them, but I found that it ate my phone battery really fast, and it already has issues, so I haven't done that in months. Also, I can't think of a time when I am doing something else where I would have enough brain power free to listen to something. Most of what I do either involves paying attention to what I am doing, or I am with other people, so listening to something instead of enjoying their company would be silly...