From Harry Potter to The Hunger Games, adults have been enthusiastically reading children's books over recent years.
Many American pilots who took part in World War II grew up during the 1930s enthusiastically reading flying pulps such as Flying Aces, and were captivated by the adventure stories, an experience that no doubt played a part in their decision to become military aviators themselves.
Europeans will nod enthusiastically when reading Judt's mantra: "broken highways, bankrupt cities, collapsing bridges, failed schools, the unemployed, the underpaid".
But I found myself nodding enthusiastically while reading (in the print edition, no less) the Wall Street Journal's special section on the future.
Family and music were central to his life; he played the piano enthusiastically, composed music, read voraciously, loved to play tennis and swim.
He spent three years delving into the life of HG Wells, whom he had read enthusiastically in his youth and met in the 1940s.
The fire St. John's has kindled in my soul has informed the path I will take after St. John's… Before I came to the college, I read enthusiastically, yet timidly.
Most Poles read it enthusiastically as an allegorical account of their own fossilised power structures.
They respond enthusiastically when it's read to them, they love the wordplay, rhythms and rhymes, and they write their own fantastic poems in workshops.
