10 Ways to Make Your Reading Fun!

If you were banished to a desert island, and you could only take one thing with you, would it be a book? A recent survey in the Netherlands: 43% would take their TV set with them, 17% the radio, and 17% a stack of magazines. But no one mentioned taking a book! These are the 10 ways to make your reading more fun! 

10 Ways to Make Your Reading Fun!

1. Start reading your book
If you've read some of it already, just start there. Buy or borrow a book from your friends.

2. Judge a book by it’s cover
Contrary to popular saying, always judge a book by it’s cover.

3. Take your time
Take a break if it's getting too frustrating or tedious. Especially if the storyline is too heavy, you might want to read it in stages and digest everything in one page at the time

4. Make it as a gift
Everything is more exciting dressed in wrapping paper and a bow.

5. Read it out loud
Speak in different voices for different characters, and voice their emotions. It may sound childish, but it usually works.

6. Book VS Movie
In my opinion, it's best to read the book before you watch the movie. However, if you've already watched the movie, you can picture the characters and scenery as shown in the film. That's always fun to do!

7. Choose your book well
You can choose your favorite genre; chick flicks, comedy, black comedy, fiction, non-fiction, fantasy, biography etc. Suitable fonts, illustration, colors, type of papers.

8. Imagination is the key!
Let your imagination run wild.

9. Reading buddy
Find a friend that shared the same interest with you – you can share the reviews of the books, open up to different authors or genre based on your friends’ suggestions.

10. Encourage others
Your family and friends and try to cultivate reading habits from an early stage.

P/S: I am now reading The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson!

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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Is Topless In Ten Times Rosie

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Here is Rosie Huntington-Whiteley topless in "Ten Times Rosie" second chapter, showing off her sexy body for our viewing pleasure. My apologies! You still don't know who Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is yet? Well, She is the Victoria's Secret model turn actress replacing Megan Fox in the next Transformers movie. But unlike Megan she has no problem showing off some boobies. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley's new book "Ten Times Rosie" is a stunning 240-page hardback photography book by photographer Lensman Rankin featuring a collection of amazing images of Rosie embodying 10 different personalities while showing off her body in the designs of Paula Thomas of Thomas Wylde. In an interview with Vogue UK, Rosie said:

“Shooting Ten Times Rosie was the most incredible experience of my career,” said Rosie. “Paula, Rankin and the team worked so hard, the set had an amazing community atmosphere. I think we have created some beautiful and iconic images. I’m so proud of this project and I believe it’s something that is very close and personal to all of us as it’s a combined effort of our creativity and imagination.”

Ten Times Rosie is available to buy now from Amazon and all good book stores, priced at $60 or £40. Below is just a 43-shot snippet of the actual book. Enjoy! Click on pictures to enlarge.



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Rosie Huntington-Whiteley (born April 18, 1987 in Tavistock, Devon, England) is a British model. She is best known for her work with Victoria's Secret. She appeared on the cover of Vogue, accompanied by models Eden Clark and Jourdan Dunn, for the November 2008 issue. www.GutterUncensored.com

Reading Habits and Its Statistics

I was updating my Living Social Visual Bookshelf on Facebook earlier today; adding up new books and giving reviews for few. Some of my books collections:

In between adding up my currently reading book (Outliers, The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell) and adding up the my review on my last week book (Man and Boy by Tony Parsons), I remember the survey that I did few years back during my English class activities. I did a simple survey on how many books that my colleagues read in a year, which medium of literature that they preferred, types of book and do they really enjoy reading or just read because they have too. I have been trying to look for the exact statistics from the survey, but I can’t find it. Nevertheless, I still remember roughly the results of it:

1. Almost 70% of them only read 1 or 2 books in a year (not educational books)

2. More than half prefer to read online newspaper and printed magazines (fashion, technology and entertainment), but not printed or electronic books

3. Types of books that they really enjoy is comics

4. And they prefer playing online games, shopping and hanging out with friends than spending their leisure time reading (reading is never been considered as any of their top 3 leisure activities)

The most mind boggling problem for me is the fact that these future engineers, business persons and young leaders are spending more of their precious time by reading and gossiping about artists (unfortunately I am one of them too, as you can see in my guilty pleasure blog) about new and latest gadgets rather than learning and understanding about the economics, politics and basically knowing nothing about what is happening around themselves.

Most of them are rarely finish reading even a single book in a year with many excuses converging to satisfy their endless craving for online gaming and socializing with their friends. Others blame the high price of books in the market in Malaysia (most of the books here range about RM30 – RM50 while others can reach out to hundreds of Ringgits). Even though I am on board with them by saying; reading limits your ability to socialize with your friends (that are not too keen of reading), I always manage to find a spare time for my books. I usually read them before I go sleep and when the internet connection is really slow crawling.

Some of the interesting reading and literacy statistic in Malaysia (Malaysia Reading Profile Survey 1996):

1. Malaysian that are able to read = 93%

2. Reading habit = 87%

3. Only 29% Malaysians use the library

4. 22% develop their reading ability via TV/Video medium

Malaysia is ranked number 89 over 179 with 91.9% of Literacy Rate as included in United Nation Development Program Report 2009, which is below Japan, South Korea, USA, Singapore, Thailand, Philippines and Indonesia. More countries can be found here.

Meanwhile, in United State, some of the reading, literacy and education statistics are (source):

1. The average student learns about 3,000 words per year in the early school years (8 words per day)

2. 60 percent of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems

3. 44 million adults in the U.S. can't read well enough to read a simple story to a child

4. More than 20 percent of adults read at or below a fifth-grade level - far below the level needed to earn a living wage

5. 15% of all 4th graders read no faster than 74 words per minute, a pace at which it would be difficult to keep track of ideas as they are developing within the sentence and across the page

6. 15% of all 4th graders read no faster than 74 words per minute, a pace at which it would be difficult to keep track of ideas as they are developing within the sentence and across the page

7. 46% of American adults cannot understand the label on their prescription medicine.

Dyslexia affects one ot of every five children - ten million in America alone

These data and statistics certainly put on view of the danger our society today will be facing if reading habit continues to deteriorate in the future. If the books are too expensive, borrow from your friends. If you cannot find the suitable time to read, do it while you are waiting (instead of twittering others) or if you are really busy, make an effort to read a couple of pages a day before you sleep. Hopefully, the world will discover the beauty of words again.

Do you enjoy reading book? Any favorite? How many books you read in a year? Oh and don't forget to join the poll "How Many Books Do You Read in A Year" too (on top right of this page)

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