Me, reading, I know...it's a miracle. I am not a reader, but I've been reading for the last few days. I've been trying not to take naps and that is very difficult when the house is quiet and my body really wants to sleep. I feel like I sleep better at night if I don't take a nap, but I don't know if that's necessarily true. Eli keeps me awake the first hour after I lay down, so I guess if I only got an hour earlier in the day it would balance out. But that's not why I'm writing.
After about the 5th person I know talked about this book, I decided I might just have to give it a try. I'm reading "Created to be His Help Meet". I think the title is generally summed in saying How to be a Better Wife. There are a lot of ideas in there that are really good. There is a lot of insight into how men are and how to work with the way they think. Of course, you have to know your man a little to pick out the characteristics but after about 10 chapters, I've actually decided to finish this book. The average person only reads one book a year. I used to think that was crazy when I was younger. I read all the time. I had a mystery series that interested me at the time. Now, it seems if the first chapter doesn't capture me totally, I'm never going to pick up the book again. Well, I'll let you know how the rest of the book turns out. But, based on what I've read so far...every woman who is married ought to read this book. There's something in there for EVERYONE!
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Hi, it's your know it all brother, I found these interesting facts somewhere on the 'net.
One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Many do not even graduate from high school.
58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school.
42% of college graduates never read another book.
80% of US families did not buy or read a book last year.
70% of US adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
57% of new books are not read to completion.
--Jerrold Jenkins.
http://www.JenkinsGroup.com
Most readers do not get past page 18 in a book they have purchased.
63% of adults report purchasing at least one book during the previous three-month period. (Most were probably exaggerating).
--Bookselling This Week, November 10, 1997.
http://news.bookweb.org/
53% read fiction, 43% nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is mystery & Suspense, 19%.
--Publishers Weekly, May 12, 1997, page 13.
http://www.PublishersWeekly.com
Of the top fifty books, fiction outsells nonfiction about 60% to 40%. Fiction peaks in July at 70% but nonfiction reaches almost 50% in December.
--USA Today, April 30, 1999.
http://www.USAtoday.com
55% of fiction is bought by women; 45% by men.
--Publishers Weekly, May 12, 1997, page 13.
Thirty percent of Americans surveyed by the Harris Poll say they would rather read a book than do anything else; twenty-one percent said watching TV is their favorite activity. That's the good news. The bad news is that only 13 percent selected "spending time with family.
--Publishers Weekly email Daily, July 9, 1998.
http://www.PublishersWeekly.com
Each day, people in the US spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.
--Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment bankers
http://www.veronissuhler.com
70% of Americans haven't visited a bookstore in five (5) years.
--Michael Levine, June 2002
http://www.LevinPR.com
Customers 55 and older account for more than one-third of all books bought.
--2001 Consumer Research Study on Book Purchasing by the Book Industry Study Group,
http://www.bisg.org
People reduced their time reading between 1996 and 2001 to 2.1 hours/month.
2001: per capita spending on books per month was $7.18.
--Publishers Weekly, May 26, 2003
http://www.PublishersWeekly.com
Only 32% of the U.S. population has ever been in a bookstore.
--David Godine, Publisher.
The time Americans spend reading books.
1996: 123 hours
2001: 109 hours
--Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment bankers
http://www.veronissuhler.com
1996 to 2001
Consumer spending on book rose 16%
Unit sales dropped 6%
(Readers spend more and purchased fewer books)
--Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment bankers
http://www.veronissuhler.com
2001: Households purchasing at least one book 56.5%
--Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment bankers
http://www.veronissuhler.com
The mean age of book buyers
1997: Age 15-39: 26.5% of the books bought
2001: Age 15-39: 20.8% of the books bought
1997: Age over 55: 33.7% of the books bought.
2001: Age over 55: 44.1% of the books bought
--Ipsos NPD reported in Publishers Weekly, January 6, 2003
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