i agree with Eunice that reading can be fun (: I agree that by choosing books of your favourite genre, you tend to have more interest in reading them. It is also true that reading is fun when done in a group as after finishing a book, you can share your thoughts & feelings about a character to others. That is probably why there are book clubs all over the world.

I feel that reading is important to today's teenagers. Nowadays, all teenagers ever do is hang out with their friends, laze around playing with their cell phones or just glue themselves to a computer. They have no idea how reading can benefit us. To some teenagers, reading is probably a waste of time. So, for some books that have been made into movies, most teens would just wait for the movie to be released instead of reading the book. However, reading actually has much more benefits besides the obvious “increase our vocabulary” advantage. Did you know that reading also helps us relax and improve our concentration?

Whenever you pick up a book and start reading it, all you do is concentrate on the story and nothing else. Thus, you forget whatever stress you had in the first place. This is also the reason why some people chose reading as a hobby – for relaxation purposes. Also, I believe reading improves our concentration, as we have to concentrate while we read or we would not catch the story at all! Therefore, reading trains our concentration, which helps us in our studies or whatever that we do.

Hence, I strongly feel that reading is important to today’s teenagers.