reading makes you smart

when i was a kid i loved reading. going to the public library was as fun as...well..something really fun at that age. my parents were and still big readers so they definitely encouraged the hobby. and did anyone ever do book-it in elementary school? it was that reading program where you read a certain amount of books and got star stickers to put on a button and when the button was filled you got a personal pan pizza from pizza hut. now that was a great idea..i hope they still have that for kids. nothing is better incentive for reading than pizza. then high school came around and my enthusiasm for reading started to dwindle. maybe bc youre forced to read books on the 'recommended reading lists' for the year...some of which really suck. of course if i read them again now i might appreciate some of them more. but anyways, it probably wasnt until college sometime that i started to read again because i actually wanted to. and post college ive started reading a lot more. maybe bc i have more spare time..maybe bc i dont have piles of school books that i have to read out of every week...but regardless of the reason, i would say that it has become a hobby of mine yet again. recently time magazine put together a list of the 'all time 100 novels' from 1923 to present. i looked over the list...i have read 5. not a real huge percentage. so maybe ill try to knock out a few more on the list when i have time..we'll see.

Time Magazine - All-Time 100 Novels