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51 lines
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<h1>Reading</h1>
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<p>I really love reading, because it's one of the only hobbies that I can just totally immerse
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myself into without worrying at all about anything else. Reading for fun is literally like
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getting teleported into a world of peace, comfort, and exhilaration, being able to enjoy a lifetime
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of exhilarating events in just a few hours.</p>
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<p>The thing I love about it the most is that it feels like it even makes real life more exciting,
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because you can start to see how even the mundane everyday is just like a book, too!
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It might be a bit embarrassing, but at times I do end up mimicking heroes from the books
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I've read, and in my opinion it ends up all the better for it, since it imbues my
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usually more aimless conversation with passion and enthusiasm... in any case,
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it can help to animate even a boring moment by likening it all to just a fragment of the
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overall very exciting storyline.
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<p>In that way, I must say I take a special loving to <a href="./lightnovels">light novels</a>, because
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they eschew all the complicated bits of using any overly flowery language (unlike me…) and get directly
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to the drama, suspense, character action, and the like! The juicy bits! I even used to basically
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desire the same thing from regular books, since I remember skim-reading some of the early Harry Potter
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books (a bit before I was really grown-up enough to read them) and only reading the dialogue!</p>
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<p>No matter what, I wouldn't mind being able to just read fiction every day for many hours, although
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sometimes other things do get in the way. The greatest joy of having gone on holiday and sworn
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not to use my laptop was being able to throw all those distractions away and read for at least 4 hours
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a day, not by force, but totally out of my own desire, and it was great. I felt like I enjoyed myself
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unbelievably well, and learnt a lot of new words and funny turns of phrase along the way.
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<p>And reading also gives you a time of slow pause, to let you drink in the nuances of language
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and to think about what each word means. Unlike a movie, it won't skip ahead without you,
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and in that regard it's totally at your own pace, letting you also match your thinking and reading
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together to go as fast or slow as you want. Moreover the imagery I'm able to see because of
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even the simplest of texts is so beautiful and stunning and immersive, I'm just ashamed
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I haven't been making <i>more</i> use of this ability until more recently!
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<p>I've fallen into various periods where I've not read awfully much, which has sadly
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atrophied my vocabulary over time; it probably peaked in year 11, where I'd known so
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many words as to always leave an impression on my English teacher. If I had to repeat my essays
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today, I'm not so sure I'd still be anywhere near as compelling… but, that's at least a little bit
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excuses by the thought that in the meantime, I have read in Japanese and German a fair bit,
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and I've been able to instead focus on learning to read those two more naturally, even to the detriment
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to my vocabulary in any one of them. It is my ultimate goal to master all of them, though,
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so I don't intend to compromise like this forever, at any rate.
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