Sentences with phrase «reading as a pastime»
A study of 1,200 wealthy people found that they all have reading as a pastime in common.
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Despite the widespread digitization of favorite pastimes such as reading and watching TV, the dominant format of entertainment remains print books, DVDs, Blu - ray disks and physical prints of digital photographs, according to the study.
He doesn't always follow recipes exactly, but he does use cookbooks as brainstorming companions: «One of my favorite pastimes is to read cookbooks when I'm eating.
As she grows through her first six years, she discovers that reading provides an escape from her nasty parents, and the educational pastime quickly allows her to become smarter than anyone else in her family.
Our main purpose is to enjoy one another's company as we pursue our favorite pastime: Reading!
Reading about the abuse that others have endured, especially abuse that they suffered as children at the hands of a near - evil parent, is rarely an enjoyable voyeuristic pastime.
Throughout this Expo and the various press conferences associated with it, there has been an undercurrent of a return to simplicity in the typical e-reading experience, a drive to bring reading back to a basic enjoyable pastime, as evidenced by two of the major e-reader platforms — Kobo and Barnes & Noble — introducing scaled - down elegant simplicity in their newest launches.
Reading is my pastime, as well as my business.
One the one hand it saddens me because it is a reflection of how the reading of books as a pastime pursuit has been a diminishing trend over the last 30 years.
The more people we get reading on the democratic medium, the medium that allows artistic freedom of expression, the medium that ships electrons and not fuel - costly paper, the better our tradecraft as writers and pastime as readers will be.
He is a widower who counts writing and reading as his two favorite pastimes.
Pleasant pastimes such as skiing on real snow in the mountains of Norway may just slip away as some anachronism of the past, a harbinger to another time when nights were blissfully cold, lakes were frozen, and science teachers were well read.
Miriam Cosic says: «For most [only] children, however, no matter how the rest of their lives turned out, childhood had a dreamlike quality, full of peacefulness, the contented pursuit of solitary pastimes such as reading or mucking around in the garden, and the undivided attention of parents.
The loft is where Joan spends most of her pastimes; it's here that she reads her cooking books as well as bake bread and cake whenever she feels.