An idiolect reading environment is not quiet; when I read I turn the radio on, not too loud but loud enough to hear the words. Quiet distracts me, if I don't have noise around I start wondering were everybody is and what their doing and why I'm not there. Therefore I can read almost anywhere and not be to distracted, not the car because I get sick but the bus, that's cool.

I don't do anything special when I start to read, no ritual I follow every time. I just read when I read, no Hooked on Phonics tricks or a certain place I always sit in. The only special reading trick I can do is that I can remember exactly were in the book events happened: how far along it is in the book in what paragraph and how many sentences in. I remember the way almost all the pages are laid out, how many paragraphs there are. My memory is almost photographic when it comes to books. Its handy when your annotating or if your bookmark felt out.

The first pages are supposed to catch your attention and interest, if they don't somethings wrong; with you or the book. Just a hint, its probably you. When I have to read a book but I'm not hooked by the second chapter, I have to keep toughing it out. The book has to be read and the assignment done, whining and procrastinating isn't going do that. The first picture book I read was fiction, so was the first chapter book, and novel, and classic I read. Now it just seems that's the genre I always read. Non-fiction isn't necessarily bad, its just that non-fiction doesn't have any of the things in books I find exciting. Lets admit non-fiction isn't full of mystery, romance, scandal and fight scenes.