When Do You Read?
January 7, 2010Someone asked me this question on my blog. I started to write an answer in the comments, but I thought I would just make it a short post.
I don’t read for 8 hours a day. I read my Bible in the morning, and usually a few pages of some Christian classic. As a pastor I read commentaries, theology books, and other related things as I prepare for sermons. Almost all the new books I read, however, are read in the evenings, after the kids are in bed. I guess I read pretty quickly. And I read pretty much any spare moment I can (waiting at the doctor, a few minutes before bed, on my day off, when I hit a roadblock on sermon prep, while watching a bowl game, etc.). I read JT’s blog and Challies, the Chicago Tribune sports page (online), ESPN.com, and I check the daily headlines on Real Clear Politics and the Lansing State Journal (I’m so antiquated I don’t even have all this on google reader). I subscribe to three magazines and two journals which I also read, though not always cover to cover. There are lots of things in life that feel like work to me, but reading isn’t one of them. So I don’t really think about when I read. I just feel like I am always reading.
By the way I didn’t like reading as a kid. So you can learn to like to read.
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