Essays

The real benefit of book reading comes not from what you read but rather from the habit of reading. When you read a new book every week, you condition your mind to keep taking in new knowledge. Your thinking remains fresh and sharp. Your brain is always churning on new ideas, looking for new distinctions it can make. Every day you pour in more ideas, which your brain must find a way to integrate into your existing knowledge base. Frequent reading fires up your neural activity, even during the periods when you aren't reading.

The attraction books offer has virtually gone down among the present generation because of the fast increasing net surfing habits being developed among the youth. The cyber surfers do not know what they are missing. The books have always been irreplaceable and will always remain so. The best companion that you

have in your leisure time and when you are lonely- be it while going to bed or during, travel.                                '                                 

Books have existed from the early years of human history and have survived the onslaught of time. Books are facing a stiff competition from WWW (World Wide Web). Fiction and Non-fiction tales all abound the Net. Surfing such sites offers hours of enjoyable companionship. If you have an active imagination you can just enter the doorway to different worlds through books. Want more information about your favorite book and having trouble finding it? Just click arid join the world of Net crusaders. That is the trend today.

Research on subjects related to your favorite books through the Net, meet the authors online, know the history of the books of interest and give your opinions. You can join clubs that can keep you well-informed by providing timely updates on recent and newly published books. Studies have shown that children that are read to

on a consistent basis begin to develop both communication and thinking skills at a much younger age than children that aren't ready to on a consistent basis. In addition, those skills continue to progress and develop much more rapidly in children that are read to consistently. This progression of skills will continue as long as you spend

quality time reading with them.

The habit of book reading lead me to acquire a great deal of knowledge about the field of personal development too. That did happen, but it also expanded the ignorance of a person. Imagine your knowledge of any field as a circle. Within the circle lies what you know- Outside the circle is what you don't know. The edge of

the circle represents your awareness of what you don't know. As the circle grows in size, its area increases, but so does its circumference. So the more you learn, the more you become aware of what you have yet to lean.

Book reading is such an activity that is both fun and enlightening. It helps us

in being more knowledgeable and successful. In my opinion book reading has immense benefits from getting knowledge to getting success in all walks of life.

Vocabulary

1. rather—preferably, by preference, from choice; 2. churn—foam. froth, boil, swirl, loss; 3. distinctions—separation, dividing line, contrast; 4. integrate—coalesce, fuse. merge. intermix: 5. frequent—common, usual, familiar; 6. virtual—near. effective, in effect, tantamount to; 7. surf—waves, breakers, lop, side; 8. companion—partner, escort, consort, friend; 9. onslaught—attack, charge, onrush, onset; 10. stiff—tight, tense, taut, aching, arthritic;   11. doorway—entrance,   front   entrance,   enter   way,   entry; 12. consistent—congruous, agreeing, accordant, consonant; 13. ignorance—stupidity, thickness, denseness; 14. circumference—extremity, edge, rim, verge, fringe; 15, enlighten—teach, educate, tutor, indoctrinate.