Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Survey Say!! Women ‘more avid book readers than men’

Women ‘more avid book readers than men’
 
    After diamonds, it seems, books are girls’ BFFs (Best Friend Forever). A new study has found that females are more avid readers of books than men – in fact, they can’t put a book down once they begin it.
According to the UK survey of reading habits, which asked 2,000 adults, almost half of women are ''page turners'' who finish a book soon after starting it compared to only 26 per cent of men, reports The Telegraph.
The research also found those who take a long time to read books and only managed one or two a year were twice as likely to be male than female.

The only likeness between He and She came among those who have two books on the bedside table at once and who start one book on the middle of reading another, switching easily. Twelve per cent of women were in this category – exactly the same number as men.

A similar survey carried out in December found half of men and one third of woman have lied about what they have read to try and impress friends.

From: TopNews.in Mar 24
Happy Holidays Ladies may you have a warm healthy holiday Season whether it be Christmas, Hanukah, Three Kings or Kwanzaa.


With the New Year approaching I’ve thought of yet another activity for all of you to participate in. It’s the “Read a Book Pledge” Here’s how it will work.
Think about how many books you think you read this year and set a goal of a few more books for next year. Let me know if you would like to participate and how many books you pledge to read in 2012.
I will then create a blog post labeled “Book Pledge” every time you read a book you will comment on the post telling us the name of the book and share any thoughts (feel free to e-mail me directly and I will post for you). At the end of the year we will see who met their reading goals and who didn’t.
Are you up for the challenge?   Can you feel your competitive blood heating up? I’ll start by setting my goal at 30 books for 2012.

Friday, December 9, 2011

Peoms about Reading

Read to me
by Jane Yolen
Read to me riddles and read to me rhymes
Read to me stories of magical times
Read to me tales about castles and kings
Read to me stories of fabulous things
Read to me pirates and read to me knights
Read to me dragons and dragon-book fights
Read to me spaceships and cowboys and then
When you are finished- please read them again

What is a Book?by Lora Duneta
A book is pages, pictures and words
A book is animals, people and birds
A book is stories of queens and kings
Poems and songs- so many things!
Curled in a corner where I can hide
With a book I can journey far and wide
Though it's only paper from end to end
A book is a very special friend

Open A Bookby Jane Baskwill
Open a book
And you will find
People and places of every kind
Open a book
And you can be
Anything that you want to be:
Open a book
And you can share
Wondrous worlds you find in there
Open a book
And I will too
You read to me
And I'll read to you.
Books to the Ceiling
by Arnold LobelBooks to the Ceiling
Books to the sky
My piles of books are a mile high
How I love them
How I need them
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them