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Anyone else a huge bookworm like me? I absolutely love to read and I am definitely a bibliophile. I have been my entire life. What do you enjoy reading?

Bverret2012 6 Apr 15
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You really opened up a can of worms with this post. Prepare to be flooded by lists of books, series, and periodicals. This site has more readers than I would have believed possible. I think most of us have troubles getting to sleep without something with words in a row on it.

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I like comics!

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I'm trying to stay away from page turners like Michael Connely, Jeffry Deaver, of Clive Cussler. I have a lot of trouble sleeping and usually read myself to sleep, but it can keep me up until one or two am. So I'm cutting back and re-reading some of my own stories I wrote years back. But sometimes I think reading real paper books is becoming a lost art.

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I like reading the Classics, especially Romantic Drama, Also Scientific and Historical books. Just finished reading 'Sapiens' (2015) by Yuval Noah Harari which I think everyone should read. Also half way through 'Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded' (1740) by Samuel Richardson which is said to be the first Novel by some scolars (depending on how you define a Novel)

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James Patterson Lee Childs David Baldacci etc

James Ellroy.

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I I come from a family of "readers", and have loved reading from a young age. I read every night, and my genres change depending on my mood. I just finished "Educated", a memoir I heard about on NPR. Great read that made me want to crawl out of my skin at times. Next in line? "Grunt" by Mary Roach, the same woman who wrote "Stiff", "Bonk", and others.

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I am a huge bookworm....but no interest in the Bible....read it front to back about 20 yrs ago and that was when I knew for sure I was an agnostic/athiest. I enjoy reading mostly fiction.....I like debut novels as these authors have not yet settled into a groove where so many of their book are alike. Mysteries are my favorite but will read history...no romance, please.....been there...done that! ha I am 78 yrs old an enjoying the freedome read as much, or as little, as I want. Would love to hear from other bookworms.

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How dare you call me a bibliophile !!

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I'm currently reading Bill Nye's new book.

Title?

"Bill Nye, the bookie guy". It details his history prior to the show as an up and coming underground sports bet taker in vegas. Fascinating stuff!

@snytiger6 "Everything All At Once"

@ScubaWags Thanks. I added it to my list of books to be read.

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I'm a reader and a fledgling writer. ?

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I love to read. I love horror, mystery/thriller, dystopian, ( I am a prepper light), science, history, and a lot more. I am currently reading Leonardo de Vinci, Killers of the Flower Moon, a couple of Dystopian novels, and just finished The Plot Against America, and I am waiting on pins and needles for the new John Connolly novel to come out, I love Stephen King, but John Connolly's Charlie Parker series have just barely edged him out of first place. He is great. I like F. Paul Wilson's Repairman Jack series a lot, but he has has stopped writing about him. He does have another series that seems promising though. The first was The God Gene, and I am planning to get the next one soon. I need to get through a few in my current pile first though. I never really get to the bottom of it, since I keep getting more books.

@Shellbell I did read it. I buy extra canned or dried food every week when I get groceries, and I also amass other supplies. This spring, I am going to start collecting heirloom seeds.

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Crisps packets ,cereal boxes , bus stops, papers any books as long as I can read

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Since childhood I have been a voracious reader. When she was eight, my daughter gave me a leather book weight. Obvously she noticed my bad habit of reading while eating. "Is this a weapon?" men ask. Women never ask that.

"Damn Fresh Milk!" the milk carton label blared when I was a kid. "That's weird," I thought. Rapidly scanning all words within eyesight, I misread "Dawn Fresh Milk."

I remember reading cereal boxes as a kid.

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Non fiction, The Big Picture, by Sean Carroll. He is a theoretical physicist. He gives some of the best explanations of entropy and quantum mechanics.
Fiction, The Expanse series is really fun read.

JeffB Level 6 Apr 15, 2018
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I have one wall that is a full floor to ceiling wall to wall bookshelves I installed finally last year! I love dystopian fiction and science fiction as well as technical books and history of course. Getting more and more into Biblical dissection style books as well.

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I have been reading since early childhood, I could spell out simple words with letter blocks to ask for things before I could talk, thanks to Apraxia of Speech. My father taught me the basics of phonics, and then jumped in with Lord of the Rings. I read Narnia on kindergarten, Lord of the Rings on my own in first grade, and after the school complained about my reading Stranger in a Strange Land, my father started buying Anne McCaffrey's Pern Series for me. My favorite book for many years was PC Hodgell's Godstalk, and then I found out that she wrote SEQUELS, and I love them all.

My book case has hard Sci Fi, old classics, Fantasy, Anthropology, books on religion, Atheist writers, biosciences, biochemistry, popular astronomy and physics, and a small selection of French, Spanish, German, and Arabic, as well as a couple books on American Sign Language.

I'm just an old-fashioned book geek.

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I love to read! Reading started as a coping mechanism for me at about the age of 7. My second grade teacher rewarded us with books if we were able to get 100% on four spelling tests. I was an excellent speller anyway, but I made sure I didn't miss one spelling word that year. My dad was an alcoholic, and my parents would fight relentlessly at times. I would hide under the covers with a flashlight at night with my books and read for hours. I like to read all kinds of different books, but my favorites are probably mysteries and fantasy.

As a child I built little forts to hide in with my books. It was a great way to avoid my mother.

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I have a nearly debilitating addiction to books. My daughter does too, she has hundreds of books!

That's a good idea... I have too many books to move. I need to join everyone in the ebook universe.

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I like mostly nonfiction, but I did enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert's "The Signature of All Things". My latest favorite book I recently read, however, is James Donovan's "A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West". I like biographies as well.

I gave up on fiction after I read some of Jean M. Auel's books, now almost all I read is non fiction.

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Psychological thrillers, historical fiction, horror, nonfiction...

@Bverret2012 I had a copy of Gone Girl in my library, but someone borrowed it and didn't return it. I saw the movie and it was great. Which of her books should I read first?

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Sci-fi mostly. And a lot?.

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Just finished Origin by Dan Brown thriller, can't turn pages fast enough I like the English novels: Eliz. George and novels in the early English era. (Sansung?) Reading "K is for Killer" by Sue grafton. Her novels just fun to read. Like Rollins novels for the info,
I also read NF if interested in topic. There was a good book about the gal codebreakers in WWII
I read 2 - 3 books per week. Don't have TV, listen to classics in Calm Radio
Hope you have good reading!.

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History, science, science fiction,

BillF Level 7 Apr 15, 2018
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I like books on really bad people like Jeffrey Dahmer etc. my fave is a book by Henry lesser about a man called Carl Panzram a journal of murder. when I read it I found myself quite admiring carl considering how he was treated.

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