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?
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 ?
My wife had me go with her to a , "marriage counselor" because of my reading all the time. Oh and she is now my ex-wife.
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.
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!.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.