I suspect this applies to most Countries – Worrying, isn’t it?
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Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
70% of adults have not been in a bookstore in last 5 years? This proves that we need bookstores back in the convenient locations! Borders and B&N have closed where I live and it’s so defeating as a reader and an author. I do love the small independent shops that are hanging on. I so yearn for those old days of sipping coffee at Borders and browsing the shelves. Please, let’s support the indie bookshop owners.
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I AGREE Paula 😀
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You know it! We saw them all half a dozen times. They were 10 when the first one came out, 12 for the second and 14 for the last! But really, didn’t you just enjoy Bob Newharts role?
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WOW I didn’t know there were THREE movies – must look out for them 😀
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Yep, you’re a nerd too! Isn’t is great?
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A big strong furry nerd DeeDee 😀
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I was constantly reading to my boys, probably more than an hour a day! It was any time we could sneak away. They always wanted to grow up and be Librarians – The Keepers of the Sacred Scrolls! Normally that would get a boy beat-up, a lot. Lucky for them they are big strong boys, they have their black-belts in Tae-Kwon-Do, and there’s two of them (twins). They got away with being nerds!
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They would love the movie The Librarian then, sort of nerdy Indiana Jones teamed up with a Lara Croft lookalike and they belong to a Society of Keepers of Secret and Sacred Artifacts 😀
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As a teacher myself, I am not surprised. It’s difficult to get children to read. Some fall in love with books, but most see it as a chore and something to be avoided. The key is parents reading to and with their children from a very early age, every day for at least the first 5 to 7 years. All the best studies point to this making for very successful life-long learners and readers. My wife and I did this with both our children and now as adults they read often.
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That’s what my Mum did too – only problem I had was that my reading age was way ahead of the rest of my classmates in Primary School, which annoyed the teachers – but I didn’t care and kept on reading above my age and in the words of that famous Scottish Author Seumas Gallagher I am still LUVIN IT LOL 😀
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Hi Chris, this is startling and yet true of many people I know personally. I’ll send this to my sites if you don’t mind. Thanks. Kharis Macey
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Please do Kharis 😀
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That is scary! I wonder where the numbers came from…
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I don’t know where Elfkat got this from Erik, but yes, it IS scary!
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