Reading
To some degree, reading is a pleasant pastime for all of us. But the avid reader—the bookworm—is the person who really makes reading a hobby. The bookworm is not necessarily a studious or learned person. The person who always has a book in his pocket, who reads on a train, in the subway, in the office at lunch time, and at home in the evening, may be reading Schopenhauer, Shakespeare, or Mickey Spillane.Reading is one of the few hobbies you can follow at any time and in any place. To get almost any book you want costs no more than the time it takes to walk to the public library. In larger cities where there are several branch libraries, your nearest branch will borrow a book from another if it does not have the title you ask for.
Some omnivorous readers will read anything they can get their hands on, fiction or non-fiction, regardless of the subject matter. Most avid readers are more discriminating. This does not mean that they read better books; it means that they usually confine themselves to one type of material: plays, mystery novels, anthropology, biography, natural history, geography, history, sports, and so on.
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August 20, 2008