The Book Stacks

Hello and happy Thursday all!

I have probably mentioned this before, but I love Thursdays. One reason is because I get to answer the Booking Through Thursday question.

Here is the question for this week:

What is reading, anyway? Novels, comics, graphic novels, manga, e-books, audiobooks — which of these is reading these days? Are they all reading? Only some of them? What are your personal qualifications for something to be “reading� — why? If something isn’t reading, why not? Does it matter? Does it impact your desire to sample a source if you find out a premise you liked the sound of is in a format you don’t consider to be reading? Share your personal definition of reading, and how you came to have that stance.

(Two weeks late for Reading is Fundamental week, but, well…)

I’m probably rather boring when it comes to answering these questions. In my opinion, as long as it has words, it’s reading. I can read a novel, read my to-do list, read the list of ingredients and read a road sign. (Not all at the same time, mind you.) It’s all reading.

I prefer to think of things in terms of good reading, light reading, heavy reading, quick reading… A light and quick read is something I get through fast and doesn’t make me think too much. A heavy read can be short or long, but either way it makes me really think about things.

What do you think?

Remember to leave a comment with the link to your answer both her and on the BTT site.