A Study of Reading Habits takes the reader into the reading life of the narrator. He used to love reading: it took him into a world where he could be what he wasn’t in real life. “To know I could still keep cool, and deal out the old right hook to dirty dogs twice my size. “ This idea reminds me of the “Rugrats”, when the babies go to the library for the first time and find themselves in multiple worlds through different books. Maybe I like this poem so much because I wish that books could take me to another world, an exciting one.
In the end, the narrator admits he does not read much anymore. Based on his explanation, it seems as though he has read many books with the same theme: “The dude who lets the girl down before the hero arrives, the chap who’s yellow and keeps the store, seem far too familiar.” Books no longer take him into a new world – only to an old one that he doesn’t wish to continue visiting.
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