Reading.

red_devil

i dont read often but when i do get into something i really enjoy it.

I try to read a book on holiday too.

This weekend i went to the library and got louise candlish the second husband. I read it all this weekend, finished it this morning.

Has anyone read this or any of her other books?

Im thinking of Dorothy Koomson next. I had never heard of her until they put the ice cream girls on tv, then i started to look in to her books.

Ive also read some Danielle Steel ones The Lone Eagle springs to mind.;)

catkins

I love reading and always have. I was read to as a child, my parents are still both avid readers (they are in their 80's), both my siblings read a lot as do my nieces and nephews.

I read often in the afternoon (I don't work so once the housework is done I read), and nearly always when I go to bed. I am normally in bed at least an hour before OH so that is time for me to read. I sometimes read while he watches tv but I find it difficult to concentrate on the book with the tv on.

OH reads but not as much as me and he is a much slower reader.

I like biographies, thrillers, historical novels and anything really with a good story. I just love reading!

We have a spare room with shelves almost all round it covered in books. We also have a bookcase on the landing, one in the living room and I have a 3 drawer bedside cabinet full of books and also a pile of books on the cabinet and on the floor. There are a good few hundred books in our house. I hate getting rid of books even if I don't think I will read it again and am not interested in a kindle.

Mr_Toad

I read every day, my wife read every day and both our children read and are still avid readers. I/we never watched much TV, there are a few programs that I/we recorded but for the most part it's radio for background music and a book, or Kindle these days.

I have thousands of books in book cases all over the house. I read everything from science fiction, crime, adventure and factual. I have three books on the go at the moment, A historical book on Francis Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spy master, a book on the history of mathematics and Dan Brown's Inferno.

I also have an extensive collection of audio books on my iPod for in the car, plane or on the train.

At the moment I'm getting through about 4 books a week. At one time when we first got married we were both getting through 5 or 6 books a week.

loulou123

I love reading, my family weren't really a "book" family, but as a kid I'd pick going to the library over the park anyday!

By the time I was 8 or 9 I'd read all the kids books in my school library and the librarians got special permission to order in more adult books for me. By the age of 11 I was reading Stephen king (my mum would've been horrified if she'd realised what I was reading.)

Hubby doesn't read at all, although he has been "reading" the street cat bob book for about 9 months, he'll watch a film or play on his xbox if I'm reading.

DKLS

I read lots during the week but thats for work I only read for pleasure on holidays these days.

I have 6 baldacci novels lined up for my week off in egypt, sheer bliss, days spent diving and evenings reading and chilling.

Pixiechic

I don't watch tv hardly at all, maybe once a fortnight, if that. If something is on that I'm interested in I record it.

We don't have a tv in the bedroom, never have.

Radio 4 is always on in our house and for some reason, I have recently shown an interest in the Archers

We have loads of bookcases and although I have an ipad, I can't get used to it over a book. I wouldn't take my iPad in the bath with me either whereas I will with a book.

Yolina

Mr_Toad wrote: »

I have thousands of books in book cases all over the house.

Same problem but I eventually did a mega book cull several years ago, then allocated limited space in the form of floor to ceiling bookcases in my corridor that could house 1200 books and no more. Thankfully I now only add a few paperbooks a years (those I get as Xmas/birthday presents, and stuff not available in e-format) and 99% of what I buy is now ebooks, that's just over 600 of them so far but at least they only take the space of 1 paperback :rotfl:

pukkamum

Hmm I'm not sure were I stand on the kindle, I just don't think it can compare to the feeling of a book in your hand, I actually prefer second hand ones, I say its because the spine is broken in therefore easier to read, but if I'm honest its the smell, does that make me weird?
I like now passing books I have read on to my kids, lyla has my faraway tree series in her room complete with drawings and ticks I made playing schools when I was little.
I like seeing the rows of books on the shelf and rediscovering ones I haven't read for years but will enjoy again.
I feel the kindle is somewhat soulless, I have found some weird and wonderful things in second hand books, including a whole rose, pressed, a spider, dead and squashed, photos, train tickets not to mention comments written in margins, I love them all.

heartbreak_star

I love my Kindle because I can carry (at present 67) multiple books around with me - I can often be reading 3 or 4 at one time as my attention span is rubbish

I do have some select books that I now read in the bath!

HBS x

tea_lover

Totally agree pukkamum. I don't have a kindle but do have some books available on my DS. It's handy, but just not the same as an actual book (or several hundred actual books). I much prefer second-hand books, there's something rather soul-less about new books. Although, imo there's something rather soul-less about hardback books as well... no, I can't explain that one!