If you’re on the lookout for a heart-warming tale, or some inspiration for your next read, then you need look no further than a recent post on Reddit. In the message, BigZ7337 (sorry we don’t have an actual name) shared the details of all the books that his recently deceased father, Craig, had read in recent years – some 10,000 of them in fact.
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Here are some facts to get you thinking:
- It is estimated that 4 million adults in the UK choose not to read as a hobby
- Results from a YouGov survey of 2,059 adults showed that 29% of people claimed to not have enough time to read, 26% simply do not enjoy the act of reading a book, and 40% always preferred to do something else with their spare time. The remaining 5% alone classed themselves as book-readers.
Happy Chinese New Year!
Sunday saw in the beginning of China’s most important family holiday – the Chinese New Year, or the Spring Festival as it’s also known as. And if you heard a loud cacophony of noise in the night sky that evening, it would have been Chinese people letting off a multitude of fireworks (or a worrisome natural occurrence which we’d like to think is pretty unlikely). The legend goes that many years ago a wise village elder advised the Chinese people to scare away a bloodthirsty monster from their defenceless villages with loud noises and bangs like the ones emitted from fireworks. It worked, and so Chinese people have celebrated like this for hundreds of years.