For this week's Monday Musings we are talking about an article on reading found here on NPR.
One statistic in this article really bothers me. That is the 9 books a year being an avid reader. I remember hearing a statistic similar to this a few years ago and it bothered me then too. No one that I know would consider someone that reads 9 books a year an avid reader. Personally, I read at least 50 books a year. My grandmother reads well over 100 a year. And my mother, who will admit that she doesn't read much anymore because of time constraints, still reads more then 9 books a year. Where are they finding these "avid" readers?
As for Ian McEwan's quote:
"When women stop reading, the novel will be dead."
I just don't believe that. If women stopped reading, it would definitely put a hurting on the novel market, but there would still be a market out there. Granted, my husband may only read one novel a year, but I have known men who were what I would consider avid readers. This means that they read at least 40 books a year. For whatever reasons, men in general may not read a lot of novels, but they do read them.
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Men read a lot! My brothers do!
Read mine here!
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All the men in my family - dad, grandfather, brothers, etc are avid readers. I don't think the novel will die if women stopped reading. However, I don't see that happening.
Robin of mytwoblessings
Mine is up now.
I would love to believe we women have that kind of power though.
I know where they got that 9 book stat.
Musing Monday
Oh I'm raffling off a copy of Brisingr this week. So visit the book review section.
Great answer. I think avid readers should read more than 30 books a year. That's a little over one every two weeks.
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