I need to keep a balance between reading and writing. I find one feeds the other.

I love the Philip Pullman trilogy, His Dark Materials.

Also anything by Don DeLillo - especially Underworld.

Anyone else love the smell of books ? Especially the second hand ones......or am I the only discreet book sniffer on site ??

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

Oh yeah, my most valuable possession is not the books itself but the stuff written down on when I read them. I can browse one I read many years ago and those comments "tell"me how much I have changed over the pass of time. Also, now a days I enjoy reading by enhancing the experience by using Google images to see actual references described in the book, or Google maps to put things in the right place, or Wikipedia, YouTube, etc. The pleasure of reading gets magnified times whatever your patience may be to take those on line detours.

I remember precisely when I became a lover of books. I was probably 8 or 9 years old. My Mama bought me Swiss Family Robinson. I came out of my room maybe an hour later and pronounced that I had finished reading the book. Which, of course, was a lie. My Mama started asking me questions about the book and since I didn't read the book, I couldn't answer the questions. So off to the bedroom again. It took me a few days to finish it, but by that time I fell in love with reading. I will read pretty much anything, with the exception of westerns, but tend to prefer fiction. Even though I have a Kindle Fire, I STILL can't pass up actual, physical books. There is something about the smell of a new book.

Love books, started that affair back when I was a toddler. By 3 I could "read" you my favorite book, "Hide and Seek Duck". Actually, I just had it memorized, but when I really learned to read, WOW! Then, when I heard about LIBRARIES, unbelievable. A place full of books and you could take them home and read them.

Decades later, I finally have my own library. It went through several transitions before becoming the library but a few years ago I decided the room was not committed to anything special and I deserved my library. There are still books in some other rooms and frankly, they won't all fit in my library. Even after trying to shave down the collection, I have somewhere over 1100 books in the house. My son is going to..... Well, I'm not sure what he is going to do when I go other than he might keep my Stephen King collection. King is my favorite author, thrillers, horror, suspense and mysteries are the genre I read most often. This is one view of the room.

History, self-help, and science fiction. Good to know I'm not the only bookworm around, especially in the day and age of e-books.

Allow me to introduce you to the 3 ft high pile of books I'm currently reading ?

I like this site and keep a record of what I've read there. Most of them I get from the library. [goodreads.com]

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

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

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.

I ironically enjoy reading books about the occult lol. I also love anything about true crime and serial killers. I also have books on the supernatural and enjoy a good graphic novel every now and then.

I do a serious book and a fun book. Right now I’m reading God delusion, but I just finished a “Recluse novel” (fantasy)

Also, had to laugh when a couple of months ago one of thoseHow Clean Is Your House programmed was on and the presenter went "Just look at this !" And showed overflowing bookshelves, stacked high and perilously......and I just mused " What is the problem, looks totally normal to me !"

I"m reading the biography of Bob Hope. He was a cheap bastard in real. life. A great book to read is THE DEVILS MUSIC, it's the story of how the blues came to America. And another great book is the autobiography of Miles Davis. It's just like talking to him. After I get dowe with this one, I'm gonna read Drew Barrymore's autobiography.

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 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.

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."

James Patterson Lee Childs David Baldacci etc

Not school-related.. Attack on Titan and One Punch Man.

I read for pleasure a little bit every night before going to sleep. The last couple of years I've been preoccupied with atheist books and science books. I'm a recent deconvert, so I feel like I have a lot of catching up to do, as far as understanding reality goes.

If we are talking about fiction, I like horror and historical fiction if it's not strictly romance. My choices for nonfiction are science and history.

yes me too I learned to read at a really young age and it was in my house very safe to have your nose in a book.(Very war damaged parents) I think it might have damaged my capacity to fit in with other children but I am never without a book to dive into - People usually leave you alone if you are reading.

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