Do your friends read?

[fajrdrako]

From Booking Through Thursday:

There was a widely bruited-about statistic reported last week, stating that 1 in 4 Americans did not read a single book last year. Clearly, we don’t fall into that category, but . . . how many of our friends do? Do you have friends/family who read as much as you do? Or are you the only person you know who has a serious reading habit?

Most of my friends read. Most of my close friends read a lot. It says something about the friends I cultivate, and our shared tastes. If I only read four books in a month, I think I'm badly slipping. And I am. There was a time when I commonly read four books a day - back when I was a sick teen who spent a lot of time in bed with no energy to do much else. That, and a serious book addiction.

I even have a handful of friends who read more than I do. Scary, isn't it?

All my family read, whenever they had the chance, and if they didn't get the chance, they made it. I have only one relative, as far as I know, who wasn't a constant reader - a second cousin who was dyslexic: reading wasn't the pleasure for her that it was for the rest of us.

Now, my very best friend through my teens didn't read fiction at all. She read for information, she read for school-work, she read magazines like Canadian Living, but she never read for entertainment as I did. As far as I know, she has only ever read one novel. But we had a humdinger of a role-playing game going for twelve years straight.