Reading is my favorite activity. You wouldn't think that a lot of practice has to go into it before you can master it.
It used to be my favorite activity too! I cut back a bit once I went to college, but I'm getting back into it now. 
Yes, I don't have much time now either due to kids. It is so complex, there are many interpretations while reading that it is hard for it to be controllable.
That is true. I have definitely struggled with that in academia. What kind of books do you like?
I like the classics, and some modern day fiction. It is a little harder to read the classics because of the interaction of the text and the reader. It has to be shaped by the reader's previous knowledge and experiences.
I agree with that. I always enjoyed the classics, but I find myself reading more Sci Fi true crime now.
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, normally written in prose form, and which is typically published as a book.
The entire genre has been seen as having "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in classical Greece and Rome, in medieval and early modern romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella. (Since the 18th century, the term "novella", or "novelle" in German, has been used in English
Usually I wouldn't go for something like that because I'd be too scared. The chances of it f**king up are so great, so now when I look back at getting to the final I'm like, 'That was f**king lucky'. I hadn't really done much for four years leading up to that and that part of my life was quite sad and dramatic. So all of these songs coming out now reflects that. There is a part of my brain that's saying, 'Ooh, you better