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Never Too Busy for Books
How Motherhood Changes Reading Habits
By Catherine K. Enders Carlton
"I am, and always have been, an avid reader," she says. "I don't have as much time to dedicate to reading as I did before kids, but I still read at least one book a week."
Slook is a member of a book club that meets monthly. Despite moving six times, she has been in a book club everywhere she has lived for the past seven years. Slook and her husband also have their own mini book club.
"Also, in 2000, when publishing houses came out with all of those millennium lists, my husband and I made a commitment to read the 100 best English language novels of the 20th century," she says. And she's nearly half done. "I've finished 49!" she says.
Slook enjoys the fantasy of reading as well as how reading keeps her informed and "makes me feel that I am challenging myself to be smarter." While she can no longer read for "several hours a night," she limits herself to an hour before bed. "Reading makes it possible to escape, to experience whole other worlds and lives," she says. "Whenever I have a choice for free time, I choose reading. My friends are working out/exercising in all their spare time, but I'd rather be a little flabby but well read."
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