AHimalayan News Service

Kathmandu

Reading might not seem like a hobby but those who have interest in this noble pastime find a growing interest. Students might find reading a very boring hobby. Especially during vacations, when all you want to do is get rid of all the textbooks, compelling you to read might seem absurd. But still, reading could be fun and interesting if you can make a thoughtful choice of what to read and when to read. How to start Habit of reading not only makes things interesting but also helps get easier with textbooks as well, which in the long run turns out to be very fruitful. Reading though a simple technique, which does not need any extraordinary skill, some tips for those who want to take up reading as hobby could be fruitful

• Read more and for longer period of time. Read an entire novel or a complete magazine in a single evening.

• Always read everything with a calm, sure, confident sense of urgency.

• Read with keen awareness of the structure of a writing.

• Read flexibly adjusting your rate and style of reading to what you read and your purpose in reading it.

• Read so that you interpret more of what you see in less time

What to read Learning to read is a continuous and never-ending process. Little additional reading, reading only material that offers no challenge to comprehension, is of no use. Many of us, after reaching a certain age, or after completing formal schooling, become so restricted in our choice of reading that we shy away from any new type of reading experience. We are reluctant to try anything beyond the level of a detective story or light novel, as if no other kind of book ever published could possibly interest us. Or sometimes we develop a kind of affinity to read certain magazines only. This is trouble. You can start reading books in fields you have little or no acquaintance with, books that will open for you new horizons. You can get a number of books in bookstores or you can try your own school/ college library. Even public libraries offer a very good range of books. Find out your subject of interest and just pick one and start perusing. Try some famous series: Famous Five, Secret Seven,Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes is one of the favourites of all time.

Books you can start with: Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding-Hood, Tom Thumb, The Tinder Box, Adventures of Noddy, etc. Bookstores in town United Books, Ganesh Man Singh Building, Thamel, 4229512 and Bluebird Departmental Stores: Lazimpat and Tripureshwore, 4228833 ext 5403 Ratna Book Distributors, Bagbazar, 4223026, 4242077

Pilgrims Book House, 4424942 Walden Book House, Thamel, 4244306, 4228119

Ekta Books Distributors, Thapathali, 4260083, 4260482

Libraries in Kathmandu Nepal Bha rat Sanskritik Sansthan Library, New Road

The British Council, Lainchaur American Library, Gyaneshwor Russian Cultural Centre Library, Kamalpokhari AWON Library, Kupondole TU library, Kirtipur

Kaisar Library, Kaisar Mahal Nepal National Library, Harihar Bhawan