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 !"

Do I read ? It's like asking "do you breathe ?" . It is a necessity of life. Generally have at least three on the go, a serious one, a light one for my break at work that I can skim while listening to colleagues, and the curl up in bed for three hours one. Actually have a Book Nook in the salon which myself and literary daughter made......Cosy chairs, throws, pillows, low table for drinks and food and spotlighting but not too harsh.
Love when people ask " How can you read three books at the same time" as I reply, do you watch the same TV programme all evening ?

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

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.

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 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.

Me!

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yes.

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

James Patterson Lee Childs David Baldacci etc

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.

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

History, science, science fiction,

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

Irving Stone, "Lust for Life" about Van Gogh was the biggy, but he has a pretty good one on Darwin too. But "Lust for Life" also teaches you a bit about many other Impressiponists.

I like comics!

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