Reading train - Improve your reading skills - help! i wanna develop habit of reading!?

help! i wanna develop habit of reading!?

I don't read at all. really want to have a habit of reading everyday but i just can't. i'd give up after reading 1/5 of the book. guess books are just not as attractive to me as tv/internet. i feel so shallow whenever i talk to other ppl. i have no confidence!!! 1. could someone pls recommend some books that can help me develop an interest in reading? 2. how should i plan my time for reading? i'm a full time uni student. cheers!!

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The most addictive books to read are Harry Potter! THEY ROCK!
Read james patterson books, the chapters are only 3 pages long and they are really easy to get into, reading at night is the best thing.
decide if you like fact or fiction try to go with books of short stories and see how that works good idea to always have a book with you surprising how many chances there are to read in a day
Well, I guess you'd need a book that would really hook you from the beginning then? I'd recommend one of my favorite books, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It's fantastic. Really gets going right at the beginning, and it's fascinating all the way throughout. Also, and this might sound silly, but the Harry Potter books are great for developing reading habits as well. I mean, look what it's done for literacy among adolescents around the world. They are very very good and interesting books, and I would definitely recommend them for anyone, regardless of age. And if you don't have time to set aside for reading, try something my English professor told me once. Take a book with you when you go to the bathroom, or while you wait in line at the post office, or in the waiting room at the dentist. Just little things like that. Also, I find that reading a little bit before bed is great. Not only does it allow you a time for strictly reading, but it helps me get relaxed enough to fall asleep.
I love Nora Roberts books. I would have to say you should pick a book about what you are interested in. You may also want to read a book you have seen the movie of. You will be suprised how much more detail you will find in the book than the movie. I usually try reading the book before the movie. Just to see how different the movie is than how it was in my mind while reading the book. Nora Roberts has made movies out of her books they come on Lifetime TV
me n u the same
I think it's great you want to be an avid reader but reading doesn't always mean it has to be a book. I myself am a avid reading and have been since I was a kid reading books much older then my age but my kids well they're a different story. I love the bookstore and books but can't seem to get my kids involved guess there's too much stuff today like you said tv, internet, gameboys, etc. that spark their interest more. I'd say just as long as your reading anything like magazines, newspapers, internet stories, etc. that's at least something. Take baby steps read short stories or book series that are only a 150 pages a book don't try to read a big novel you'll lose interest. Hope this helped a little, good luck.
read 'fight club' by chuck palahniuk that book will keep you hooked
Just try to read whenever you can, it doesn't have to be planned. For example, if you get the bus/train/whatever to uni, you could use that opportunity to read. Or if you're watching TV and find yourself aimlessly flicking through the channels or watching something you're not that bothered about, switch off and read instead. As for what books to read, it's really a matter of taste and depends on whether you want fiction, non-fiction, comedy, thriller, or whatever.
harry potters r a great read and they are light and funny (weasley twins) and once uv read the first few chapters ur usually hooked on the book jst start reading a chapter a night or wotever time suits u best and stick to it ul soon get into reading but the books u really will love
ok, so you wanna read, there are lots of questions that immediately spring to mind, such as what are you interested in? what do you like watching on TV? What grabs you in the paper? What do you want to say to people? To cut an essay into a quick post, try this as your first reading experience, this is proper culture that you can use with anyone, and it has the bonus of being really funny and nice as well. Quite cute actually. If you're into cute.... you might not be, if so go find some big macho killing death stuff that makes you happy!!!!!!! The Old Gumbie Cat I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her coat is of the tabby kind, with tiger stripes and leopard spots. All day she sits upon the stair or on the steps or on the mat: She sits and sits and sits and sits - and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. And when all the family's in bed and asleep, She slips down the stairs to the basement to creep. She is deeply concerned with the ways of the mice - Their behaviour's not good and their manners not nice; So when she has got them lined up on the matting, She teaches them music, crocheting and tatting. I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; Her equal would be hard to find, she likes the warm and sunny spots. All day she sits beside the hearth or in the sun or on my hat: She sits and sits and sits and sits - and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. As she finds that the mice will not ever keep quiet, She is sure ist is due to irregular diet And believing that nothing is done without trying, She sets straight to work with her baking and frying. She makes them a mouse-cake of bread and dried peas, And a beautiful fry of lean bacon and cheese. I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots; The curtain-cord she likes to wind, and tie it into sailor-knots. She sits upon the window-sill, or anything that's smooth and flat: She sits and sits and sits and sits - and that's what makes a Gumbie Cat! But when the day's hustle and bustle is done, Then the Gumbie Cat's work is but hardly begun. She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment, So she's formed, from that lot of disorderly louts, A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts, With a purpose in life and a good deed to do - And she's even created a Beetles' Tattoo. So for Old Gumbie Cats let us now give three cheers - On whom well-ordered households depend, it appears. NOW!! Thats called poetry, and it's rather nice don't you think! If you need more links to help with your reading, please email me. I'll be glad to help. Oh Iforgot to say, its by T.S.Eliot. One of the greatest british authors ever. And no its not a film!!
Reading is a habit that can't be learned, you have to want to read to do it. The only way is to find a book you will love and read without forcing yourself~
Why don't you start small? Read newspaper articles -- the ones that jump out at you and grab your interest. Read letters to the editor and editorials. Find out what the issues of the day are, and what various people think about them. Then you can move up to reading a whole newspaper or magazine. Don't feel that reading has to be drudgery, hard work, or a bore. Read as much as you want, and enjoy what you read. Chances are you'll get hooked and want to read even more!
Read books that you enjoy like if you want to laugh read things that are funny, if you like sci-fi read sci-fi if you like adventure read adventure. Don't just read something because you feel like you are suppose to. You won't have any fun and won't want to read any other books for a long time. Also try reading smaller books or think of each chapter as it's own individual book. Books: Time Warp Trio by Jon Scieszka The Old Man And The Sea by Ernest Hemingway Trial By Fire by Sabine C Bauer Survival of The Fittest by Sabine C Bauer Roswell by Sonny Whitelaw Authors: Jane Austen O. Henry Isaac Asimov Jules Verne Frances Burnett
Read Michael Connolly novels, you don't need to plan any time for them because you won't be able to put his books down. They are that good trust me
Make sure you have a library card...that way you can go through tons and tons of books for free until you find your "type". I'm a big reader but it took me awhile to find my type. If I were you I would start off by reading at bedtime. When I first started reading I read at bedtime. It's really relaxing and can help you fall asleep. I became addicted to relaxing by reading so everytime I was wound up and needed to relax I would read. Eventually I would read during my spare time. Hope you develop a taste for reading but don't feel bad if you don't. Some people never do. Knowing how to read is the important thing :)
You’re making it sound like reading is a chore, I don’t think there should be a routine, you should just ‘feel’ like turning to a book, you don’t have to have hourly sessions daily unless you want to. You need to discover what sort of book you enjoy, I am a very fussy reader which put me off reading for a good number of years until I discovered books that really took my interest, I have a few laying around that I never finished but subsequently have. It has only been the past year I’ve been able to read ‘book after book’. It initially started for me as something to do on my exercise bike, but now its taking over my life. (SOS Help!) I returned to reading with Charlotte Bronte’s “Jane Eyre” it was one of the books I had in my house, I had attempted to read it before but I was turned off after the first few pages, this time I fell in love with it, and enjoyed it thoroughly. I then moved through all my old books that I had never finished, “Westside Stories” detailing the progression and effect of Hip Hop from past to present on a ‘street level’. “Outlaws” by Kevin Simpson, all books I’d picked up at HMV because they’d look ‘interesting’ but never got around to reading them. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks is my most ‘must-read’ book, focusing on World War one, I found this book completely changed the way I looked at the world and finally for once, truly appreciated the suffering our ancestors went through. It has massively gotten me into war literature, I intended to read more books about World War one, though I’ve ended up buying, and currently reading “Suite Française” by Irene Nemirovsky, one of the few novels that was written about the Second World War during the war. The story behind the book is as inspiring as the story itself, she was the daughter of a successful Jewish banker, fleeing the Russian Revolution to France, she eventually ended up in Auschwitz and dying, her daughter believe the notebooks were full off personal thoughts, fifty years later realising they were infact part of a novel. It details the life first of Parisians fleeing the invading German Army, focusing more on their lives than the impending German force, and eventually moves onto a rural community under the occupation of Germans, fascinating reading. Once you find what interests you, you can find no end of books to captivate you.
read half an hour a day, umm, books for you to read, errr, Chuck Palahniuks books are quite good, Phillipa Gregory is also good.
So you only get part-way through a book? Big deal. Don't worry. It means that the books you're choosing don't grab your interest. We all enjoy gossip. When someone tells you about something they've done, you listen and try to imagine what's gone on, and you judge whether they're telling you the truth or not. Reading is like that too. It involves a conversation between you and the author, except that the author does all the talking and all you can do is reflect on what you've been told. Perhaps when you read, you need to be more actively involved in order to keep your interest. For example, try asking yourself questions about what the author has written. Has the writer made you believe in the characters - do real people act and speak like this? Where is the writer leading you, and can you spot the tricks that are being used to make you believe in this fiction? What themes does the book get you to think about, and do you agree with the author's views? Can you guess what will happen next? Are the facts / background details true (even sci-fi and fantasy have to be based on some kind of reality)? How would you turn this story into a film? The big secret about reading is not to give up trying to find an author you enjoy. Happy reading.
i'm an reader who can't stop reading lol i started at reading thin books at night jus b4 i went 2 sleep but den gradually read bigger books and trust me it wrks as long as u don't read information books lol