Sentences with phrase «reading for pleasure drop»

I'd lost sight of it, so let my own reading for pleasure drop.

• The percentage of students who said they read for pleasure dropped from 69 % in 2000, to 64 % in 2009.

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He was given a full ride to Vanderbilt University's graduate program in English but dropped out after a year, knowing that he wouldn't be able to continue reading and writing for pleasure if he became a college professor.

As soon as I got to this passage, my heart grew heavy, but I forced myself to read until the end:» And now, dear friend, you who have journeyed with me in all these merry doings, I will not bid you follow me further, but will drop your hand here with a «good den,» if you wish it; for that which cometh hereafter speaks of the breaking up of things, and shows how joys and pleasures that are dead and gone can never be set upon their feet to walk again.