Reading.

Dunroamin

We both read an enormous amount and get through 3 to 4 books each a week. I read in bed and in the bath, my husband (who's disabled) reads mainly during the day. We have many thousands of books and a Kindle Fire.

fashionlover10

I read quite a lot of books on the tablet OH gave me for Christmas. I usually read in bed so OH doesn't care because he's too busy snoring. Sometimes I'll read while he watches something I'm not interested in or while he's researching stuff for work.

I do have a 'proper' book that he got for me which I haven't started yet. I feel guilty that I've yet to pick it up but I had loads already lined up on my Kindle app, although I don't even think he's noticed I haven't touched that book yet!

Edited to add that my OH doesn't read very much. He will occasionally but it's not his first choice of activity.

I was read to a lot as a child, taken to the library at least once a week and had a floor to ceiling bookcase absolutely packed with books whilst growing up. A bookcase was actually my first 'must buy' when OH and I moved in to our first home.

I think a child's upbringing in regards to reading has an impact on whether or not they read as an adult.

pukkamum

I have read every day of my life, I cannot get in bed and not read, I even used to do it when back from a club, mindlessly drunk!
Dh reads too but not every night and he reads much slower than me, I am a speed reader, the amount of books in my bedroom is ludicrous as I too have an aversion to getting rid of books, although I do love passing them on to friends and family.
I dare not pick up a book during the day as I will struggle to put it down, I have lost whole days this way.
I am currently re-reading The Stand with extra content and I look at it longingly when I'm cleaning upstairs.
My love of reading is one of the main reasons I come on here just so I can read!

The kids have inherited my love of books ds 11 is reading at the level of age 18+ and dd 7 is working through harry potter.

I get all my books from the charity shop 3 for £1 or if I want a specific book green metropolis.

Dunroamin

pukkamum wrote: »

I have read every day of my life, I cannot get in bed and not read, I even used to do it when back from a club, mindlessly drunk!
Dh reads too but not every night and he reads much slower than me, I am a speed reader, the amount of books in my bedroom is ludicrous as I too have an aversion to getting rid of books, although I do love passing them on to friends and family.
I dare not pick up a book during the day as I will struggle to put it down, I have lost whole days this way.
I am currently re-reading The Stand with extra content and I look at it longingly when I'm cleaning upstairs.
My love of reading is one of the main reasons I come on here just so I can read!

The kids have inherited my love of books ds 11 is reading at the level of age 18+ and dd 7 is working through harry potter.

I get all my books from the charity shop 3 for £1 or if I want a specific book green metropolis.

I think a love of reading is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child.

paulsad

I do read in the evenings but not for long as fall asleep, tv in the bedroom maybe to blame for a lot of us reading less?
Both of us read a lot more on holiday. I find most fiction books a bit predictable and disappointing (maybe I should have been a detective?), good "reads" seem hard to find, been a long while since I've recommend one.

thatlemming

Dunroamin wrote: »

I think a love of reading is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child.

I think this too.

I read loads, my bf does not read at all. He sits on the internet and looks at cars instead. I've no idea how he does it for so long, but he has no idea how I can sit and read for so long, he says he's only read 2 books in his life

Gillyx

I read a lot, my OH doesn't read at all. I read in the lounge on the sofa and he will watch telly, if I read while I'm in the bath I don't know what he does, watches telly I'd imagine, and if I read in bed he watches a DVD ( see the pattern here?)

I also read to my son (17months) every night, he seems to love books

pukkamum

Dunroamin wrote: »

I think a love of reading is one of the greatest gifts a parent can give a child.

Thank you I too feel it's really important, my best friend who was much more academic than me, would wonder why my essays would get better marks than hers.
It was all down, I think, to the fact that I read and she didn't, although she was very clever, she struggled with grammar, punctuation, spelling and could not , flower up, her essays like I could.
She still doesn't read and her daughter is becoming the same way, not picking up a book for pleasure only because she has to, the difference in vocabulary between my daughter who reads and her daughter ( same age) who doesn't is very noticeable.

johannalf88

I LOVE to read!

My husband does not read at all, and while I read he entertains himself for about an hour, then spends the next hour annoying me trying to get my attention! :rotfl:

Pixiechic

I love reading too and I read quickly and struggle to put a book down!

My OH reads too, we have lots of books.

I read loads as a child, I loved Enid Blyton, famous five, secret seven, mr twiddle, little mrs pepper pot, the faraway tree, I loved them all.