I am a Reader!?

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I am pretty sure that many of you here will be book readers, so much so that reading would be an inseparable part of your life. Yes, I’d say that too, that I love reading books, I love to get lost in an imaginary world. But today I read something which shook my beliefs, that I was or am a book reader.

So I say that I read books, but how many, which ones? There are so many books and which ones do I pick?

I know the quantity does not matter, the quality does, but wait till you read this..

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What do you say now? 😀

I am not much of a calculative person, but I am pretty sure that I am not reading since I was 5, I sometimes take more than a week to complete a book, and what more? I might not even live to be 80.

So I don’t even read 1% of fiction, non-fiction that is available to me and I call myself a reader?

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56 responses to “I am a Reader!?”

  1. Infinite Living Avatar
    Infinite Living

    Oh this is such an eye-opening and interesting revelation!! Wish you the most content and happy reading days 🙂

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thank you 🙂

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      1. Infinite Living Avatar
        Infinite Living

        My pleasure 🙂

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  2. iScriblr Avatar
    iScriblr

    Interesting revelation! I ❤ reading! 🙂

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Thanks 🙂

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  3. writingdreamwords Avatar
    writingdreamwords

    that’s pretty mindblowing! but by that definition i’m not sure anybody would qualify as a reader (unless you count computers). I think the main thing is how much you enjoy it and how dedicated you are to it

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Absolutely right. The count is not required, the pleasure of reading is.

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  4. swalia Avatar
    swalia

    Reading is purely for leisure. I never keep a count of reading but since last year, I have been keeping a track of the books that I read. This year for the first time I took good reads challenge and have set myself a goal of reading 40 books a year. However, I still read at my own pace so that I enjoy reading or else reading would also become a chore.

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      That is quite a challenge, and I don’t keep track either but it is only till I read this that I gave it a thought.

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  5. kalyansparks Avatar
    kalyansparks

    Then what should we call ourselves…….??

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      I wish I knew 🙂

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  6. Sifar Avatar
    Sifar

    Since childhood I used to think about the innumerable books present on earth, in different languages, in thousands of libraries and how I will never be able to read each one of them which means I will be devoid of so much knowledge hidden in them. Sometime somewhere an aim developed that I will read whatever comes my way and in college when I got introduced to the big library i was awed by the number of books in that and i made library my second home! So much so that I used to be the top reader every month based on number of books I used to finish in a week (3-4 books a week)….then after i started working, the frequency got reduced but i would get to buy the books now! I also realised i liked reading slowly over couple of days, reading some pages and then munching on them in my mind, trying to imagine and digest, that way even though duration to finish a book increased but I enjoyed it even more…so a book which i could finish in 2 hours i would take a week to finish!
    Reading stopped completely for couple of years while I struggled with other things but now im trying to pick it up again! This post reminded me of all my childhood thoughts of how i can never read everything written till date!! 😄😄 that’s why i love your posts!! 😃

    PS: cant help but notice so many ‘calculations’ coming from you!! 😀 that was the only uninteresting part for me as it broke my continuity and i went over it many times but then gave up!! 😛 though I understood what you wanted to convey…

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      3 to 4 books a week? HOW?? These cases has been really very rare for me and I so miss them.
      But yes, since I have started reading I have taken a lot of breaks, sometimes really long, but I always turn back to them. It has somehow been the only constant in my life.

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      1. Sifar Avatar
        Sifar

        Haha yes 3-4 in a week and sometimes 1 per day! Which would mean marathon reading session extending whole night…but that depended upon the interest in the book and that hunger to read back then! Now i have so many distractions and things boggling the mind that it’s always diverted and not at peace to concentrate on reading.
        Good you have started reading and continue to do so. I am trying to read more…have also joined a book club! Yesterday we discussed about ‘a thousand splendid suns’!!

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      2. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        That is a wonder. I have read it more than twice and still find it so moving.

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      3. Sifar Avatar
        Sifar

        Oh you liked it? I mean such novels?!! 😊 i myself was so numb after reading it and felt angry as well at the human appetite for war and destruction!

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      4. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        Yes, I do like it.

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      5. Sifar Avatar
        Sifar

        I finally did a post! Do check if you get time 😊

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      6. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        Sure.

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  7. Stevie Avatar
    Stevie

    My mother, the greatest reader I ever knew, once told me that when a little girl, she cried the day she realized she would never get to read all the books in the world!! She did pretty good, though, getting through a book a day while raising 4 kids and following her army husband around the world. (I won’t comment about her housekeeping, haha!)

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Oh My!!! I am thrilled to read this, a book a day. Now that is certainly a very big achievement.
      I wonder how she managed it..

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      1. Stevie Avatar
        Stevie

        You did see my comment about her housekeeping, right, haha! She did read more than a lifetime worth in her short life (she died young of lung cancer – she did smoke her cigarettes while reading, unfortunately😢) I dedicated my book Camp Follower One Army Brat’s Story by Michele Sabad to her memory🤗

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      2. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
        Moushmi Radhanpara

        I am sorry to hear about that. But it was so lovely of you to dedicate your book to her.
        I was going through your blog as of now, and I surely find it interesting.

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        Stevie

        Thanks same to you! Life is so enjoyable when shared!

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  8. thewritewomanblog Avatar
    thewritewomanblog

    I guess it is nothing to do with trying to get a hand or your eyes into every book in the market, it is about the joys of reading, is it not?

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      You are absolutely right.

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  9. CW Avatar
    CW

    I love reading and got to say, take your time hehehe 🌻🌷

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Hahaha, Thanks for stopping by 🙂

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  10. Krishna Avatar
    Krishna

    I am book reader as well 😍❤️aren’t they just like a good friend who is always there 🌸

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    1. Moushmi Radhanpara Avatar
      Moushmi Radhanpara

      Absolutely true. And they are always there.
      Good to find another book lover here 🙂

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