Sentence examples for took up reading from inspiring English sources

Daniel himself has a story — he took up reading in prison, turning himself into a bit of a mystic intellectual — but not much of a personality.

It was also during Trenchard's time in India that he took up reading.

She took up reading at a young age, reportedly capable of reading translations of The Adventures of Tintin by kindergarten.

I realized I always had something to say, so as a stutterer, I took up reading and writing and became pretty good at both.

He was passionate about classical music, literature, and comfort food Chicago-stylee hot dogs, all-you-can-eat buffets, lunch-counter burgers); aiming to please him, Jonathan, the oldest of three sons, took up cello, reading, and eating.

So, after a commute taken up with reading about Middle-Earth, she often ends her day reading books like "James and the Giant Peach" to her two sons.

He told Leno last year that he took up painting after reading Winston Churchill's memoirs, in which the former British prime minister wrote about his passion for the canvas.

In 2005, the European parliament took up the second reading of a directive that had been proposed by the European Commission to authorise software patents.

I took up abstract painting after reading about its kind effect on the mind.

He retired in 1985 at the age of 60 and moved with Betty to Punta Gorda, Florida where he took up oil painting and enjoyed reading, golfing and swimming.

Netanyahu has been a member of the Republicans' neoconservative circle since the Reagan years; when I interviewed him in 1998, during his first term as Prime Minister, he took up the first ten minutes reading me a column by Charles Krauthammer.