Curling Up with a Book

Curling up with a book requests time and solitude, demands our full attention and requires us to get into the reading. First of all, in order to curl up with a book, one should be isolated in his/her free time when there are no disturbances at all. It’s necessary to read in your free time because It Is the time when you have nothing on mind. This Is very helpful since our mind would be empty of Issues and worries of our dally life. It also needs a comfortable place and environment to be able to focus on the reading; It Is necessary to be alone when It comes for reading.
It has happened to me that I can’t read anything in the college because there have been a lot of distractions; for example, the noisy atmosphere, electronic devises, too many people walking by and others. I’d rather wait until I arrive at my house; I would immediately go to my room with no interruptions, so I can read in silence and concentrate. Carol Shields (1997) explain that being lonely is necessary when one reads. It is not something to pity about as compared when someone is eating alone in the restaurant or watching the movie alone on a Valentine’s Day.
Solitary reading is the first requirement to curl up with a kook: “Our hearts go out to them, but reading, by definition, can only be done alone. I would Like to make the case today for solitary time, for a life with space enough to curl up with a book” (p. 248). Then one should pay full attention on the reading. We can do multicasts In many ways, for Instance, we watched television while we are eating or we listen to music while we are solving some math problems. We can do all of this at the same time, except when we are reading.

When we read, we should focus to one point and one straight line. Don’t let anything that can make you lose track easily. It is not recommended to read in the Internet because it is very disturbing whereas holding a book is much more real and potent. Losing concentration is very easy in the Internet because someone can send you an instant message, and you might want to surf for a while in the web. However, reading a book is always better; reading can take readers to an imaginary place that the Internet can never take you.
Although the Internet provides us with many deferent kind of information, reading through the website will never give us the experiences and feelings that a book can give us. For example, when we read, we are connected with he reading since we are actually touching the book; also we can easily dullness the author’s perspective. Just like the author Carol Shields (1997) said that we can bytes and texts; also by reading we can find out the tone, formal order, voice and the persuasion of the reading: “A written text, as opposed to electronic information, has formal order, tone, voice, irony, persuasion.
We can inhabit a book; we can possess it and be possessed by it” (p. 249). Finally when someone reads, one should be part of the reading; furthermore, someone can get inside the reading and experience special linings and moments along with the main character. For instance, I have experienced this when I read “I’m a Banana and Proud of It” by Ways Choc; I felt like I was in the author’s position since I also look like a Chinese, but my native country is not China.
Nowadays, adults are so busy that they have almost no time to think of reading a book. They have more important things to do and to worry of, especially for the people that are not wealthy. The students are also occupied in their study, and if they ever have time, they will spend it in their social life rather than staying at home to read a book. Overall, curling up with a book is like being lost in a book. In order to comprehend deeply a reading, it is essential to be lone with our blank mind, to have full concentration and to feel part of the reading.
We can feel free, imagine intensely and experience something beyond the real word through reading. Everyone needs reading in their life. It’s so vital for our mind and body. Almost all the knowledge that one can get comes from reading. That is why reading is such a wonderful activity to do since it broadens our knowledge and experience. Reference Shields, C. (1997). The case for curling up with a book. In G. Disgusts & J. J. Me (Des. ) Refining reading writing. (up. 248-250). Toronto: Nelson Thomson.