Reading.

meritaten

I am a bookaholic, I read at least ten to 15 books a week. my OH watches TV (and moans about piles of books everywhere).
On holiday recently I read about 25 books - I read in the mornings while waiting for OH to wake up, I read on the beach and I read while he watched TV at night. After 35 years of marriage he is used to me having my nose stuck in a book at every available opportunity - I can even read while cooking Sunday Lunch. (he moans that I would read while er enjoying marital relations if I thought he wouldn't notice).

Sneezy

I love reading too...

Much like some of the other posters, I read on my commute (30 minutes each way) and on my lunch and when I have time in an evening (which is less frequent than I like and spare time competes with knitting and ps3 time).

When I was little and had been given the responsibility of packing for holiday my mum always had to repack because I used to just put books in (~10 for a weeks holiday :rofl:) and very few clothes.

My mum has always been a big reader but over the past 5 or so years her eyes have got worse and she would struggle to read any books at the standard print size (even with glasses she would struggle). We bought her a kindle for Mother's Day last year and she loves it and has read more books in the past 16 months than the previous 5 years.

I've had a kindle since Christmas 2010 - hated the idea at first and it wasn't until my dad told me to seriously look at it that I considered it. I love it and wouldn't be without it - I do still buy books (hardbacks/special editions of fantastic ones that I will read again) but as my room is tiny and I only have one bookcase they have to be good ones (I have many more books in boxes ready and waiting for the day I can put then on a bookcase).

catkins

Unlike some posters, I love hardback books. If I can afford to buy them I would much rather have hardbacks than paperbacks and they look so nice on the shelves!

My OH, although he reads now, grew up in a house with parents that never read. There is no one single book in their home. One Christmas, a couple of years after we had got married, we spent Christmas with OH's parents and one of my presents to him was a really lovely book about animal migration. When he opened it his mother's comment was "He was never interested in books until he met you" said in a nasty accusing voice! Anyone would think it was drugs I had got him into!

This_Year

I actually get a mild sense of panic when I haven't got a book to read. Can you be a bookaholic?

neverdespairgirl

My OH says I suffer from abibiliophobia - the fear of being without a book.

Faith177

catkins wrote: »

Unlike some posters, I love hardback books. If I can afford to buy them I would much rather have hardbacks than paperbacks and they look so nice on the shelves!

My OH, although he reads now, grew up in a house with parents that never read. There is no one single book in their home. One Christmas, a couple of years after we had got married, we spent Christmas with OH's parents and one of my presents to him was a really lovely book about animal migration. When he opened it his mother's comment was "He was never interested in books until he met you" said in a nasty accusing voice! Anyone would think it was drugs I had got him into!

My Grandparents on my dads side are like that they don't do books.

I use to drive them mad when I would visit in the school holidays because I was always reading. My nan once asked me why I couldn't be like a normal child and just watch tv??

My other nan was a different story she loved to encourage me and always buys me books for Christmas even now. A couple of years ago she brought me the entire set of the True Blood books because in her words "I know what your like for your vampires" lol.

I use to spend every weekend with her from 9-12 as my Grandad work nights at the weekend. She would read poems to me and get me to learn them off by heart (I still remember most of the charge of the light brigade).

I look at the girls I work with who hardly read and don't watch the news and it is pretty obvious what an effect reading has on a person and how it helps you build knowledge. Even reading something as simple as a chick lit novel you will learn something new

Jinx

I love to read (instilled by my mum, shes the same) - Im a binge reader though! Tend to start and finish a book on the same day....... Day to day I'll read magazines or MSE of course.

Hubby doesn't read fiction - his passion is cars so he reads car manuals and stuff about racing occasionally.

My daughter loves to read too, bed time stories spiralled into a real bookworm and we like to swap books.

Daughter, mum and I all have kindles. Hubby its hard backs or Classic Ford magazines.

Cannot imagine EVER travelling without a book - its an essential and Im lucky enough to be able to read while in transit

Pixiechic

I read loads but I just can't read whilst travelling, it makes me feel sick after a while.

I wish I was lucky enough to be able to read whilst in transit

Hermia

red_devil wrote: »

does anyone ever have two books on thego at once?

Sometimes I do. Usually it's when I reading some heavy-going non-fiction and need to have something lighter for those evenings when I get in from work and am mentally exhausted.

Books are probably the one thing that have been with me since early childhood and I cannot imagine being without them (I am having a panic attack thinking about it!). I simply cannot imagine what life must be like without books. I have read loads more books since getting a Kindle, but I wish I had more time for reading. A lot of the booktubers on YouTube are currently doing a read a book a day for thirty days challenge. I would love to have joined in, but the only way I could have done that was if I went out and bought lots of Mills & Boon! I don't think I can read Bring up the Bodies in one evening after work!

red_devil

should this be a sticky lol;)