Books! How do you read and what do you read?

[moviequeen1]

Could you read 80 books a year? I'd be lucky to complete a book. Having a cell phone doesn't help with my attention span for reading.

This woman claims to read 80 a year.

Speaking of why people have stopped reading...

I read a lot of books every yr but not even close to 80,usually around 45-50 Sue

 

[StarSong]

Could you read 80 books a year? I'd be lucky to complete a book. Having a cell phone doesn't help with my attention span for reading.

This woman claims to read 80 a year.

Speaking of why people have stopped reading...

I read at least 80 books a year, but being mostly retired provides lots of reading time.

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

I generally read 2-3 books a week.Which comes to 100-150 a year.

 

[Sliverfox]

Not sure how many books I read a year.

These are a few I've read since I was last here.

Wild side by Fern Michaels

The Glass Maker by Tracy Chevalier

Low Country Lost by T.I. Lowe

 

[Medusa]

I'm currently re-listening to, A Dirty Job, by Christopher Moore, which is the funniest book I've ever read.

 

[Sliverfox]

Hazelbourne Ladies Motor cycle and Flying Club by Helen Simonson
This is an entertaining novel.

Bad River by Marc Cameron,,, keeps. you guessing.

Den of Iniquity by J.A. Jance.
Thought his was one of her better novels.

 

[Twostep]

Going through all Literature Nobel Prices right now. Some of them were smoking the good stuff!

 

[Oldeagle66]

I read all types of books and several at once. A bathroom book, a bedroom book, a book for tv commercials. Neat bookshelves in every room.

 

[GoodEnuff]

I tend to read the same classical books over and over. My faves:

(Anything/everything) by or about Hemingway (My favorite author of all times. I was just a kid when I first read The Old Man and the Sea and I have that very same hardback copy, first edition that my Mom acquired way back then when first published. If there was a fire, I would grab that right after the dogs.)
Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes (Doyle)
Complete Works of Agatha Christie
Complete Works of Robert Frost (esp. "Walking by a Wood on a Snowy Evening" and "The Road Not Taken")
Complete Works of Mark Twain

Then all kinds of other stuff, different philosophers (i.e., Stoicism), politics (Dos Capital/Karl Marx), history, anthropology.

 

[Della]

I've averaged about 100 books a year since I was in 2nd grade and the teacher announced the fact that I'd read a hundred books from the little class library. I thought I was in big trouble because I was already getting yelled at, at home for reading too much.

I'm limited to large print these days, but my local library has a big room of LP's and will happily send off for the ones they don't have.
I heart my library! I just got an e-mail saying they're holding "Snow" by John Banville for me. I'm amazed, because we have heavy snow in southern Ohio right now, and I wouldn't think that old van that carries library books from one branch to another would have been running at all.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

Enjoy most of James Michener, especially "Alaska" and "Journey" (about Canada to Klondike gold rush)
"The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End" both excellent, by Ken Follett - Ken Follett is a good writer.
"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Can you tell I enjoy historical fiction as well as triumph over adversity?

 

[Della]

I liked all those, CooCoo! "East of Eden," is one of my all time favorites. I like historical fiction a lot , too. Norah Lofts, Edna Ferber, Willa Cather, I read so many of their books when I was younger. I miss them.

 

[Medusa]

Enjoy most of James Michener, especially "Alaska" and "Journey" (about Canada to Klondike gold rush)
"The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End" both excellent, by Ken Follett - Ken Follett is a good writer.
"Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt
"East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

Can you tell I enjoy historical fiction as well as triumph over adversity?

Agree with you about Michener; I read Chesapeake 30 years ago when we moved to Maryland. Also enjoyed Angela's Ashes and East of Eden.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

Agree with you about Michener; I read Chesapeake 30 years ago when we moved to Maryland. Also enjoyed Angela's Ashes and East of Eden.

I consider a book good if it can hold my attention long enough to read it more than once. Read Chesapeake also, am from Eastern Shore of Maryland myself, and my grandfather and great grandfathers were oystermen in Maryland.

I like hard copy books, simple and can take them anywhere I want without worrying about some battery running out.
May read two at a time.

 

[January]

I read all types of books and several at once. A bathroom book, a bedroom book, a book for tv commercials. Neat bookshelves in every room.

That's an interesting way to do it.

I am opposite - I only ever read one book at a time.

 

[moviequeen1]

The book I'm reading is "Tom Lake' by Ann Patchett.
The story is set in 2020,Lara&Joe Nelson live on a cherry farm in Michigan. Their 3 daughters are home for a visit, they ask Lara to tell them story of famous actor, Peter Duke her romance with him when she was in her 20's They were appearing on stage at local theater company, Tom Lake in play' 'Our Town

 

[Pepper]

I'm currently re-listening to, A Dirty Job, by Christopher Moore, which is the funniest book I've ever read.

Looks like an interesting, talented writer, thanks for recommendation!

 

[Medusa]

Looks like an interesting, talented writer, thanks for recommendation!

Welcome. Hope you like it.

 

[moviequeen1]

Yesterday afternoon, finished reading' Tom Lake' by Ann Patchett
I enjoyed it,author is a favorite of mine, have read majority of her books

 

[spectratg]

Just finished “The Berry Pickers" by Amanda Peters for my Book Club in the retirement community where I live. A real "tear jerker." "A four-year-old Mi'kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years."

 

[CinnamonSugar]

Hard back, library book. So good!

 

[TinaM]

I have a Kindle unlimited account and read books in my phone. I read about 6 a month, usually serial FBI fiction or the like. Some of the authors I read have created characters that span 20 books or more.

Some collections I had as paperback I’ve now purchased as e-books, like the detective books of Kinsey Milhone by Sue Grafton.

 

[OldFeller]

Books I am in progress reading are:

These books I read for ideas....
The Portable Jung Edited by Joseph Campbell (writings of Carl Jung, Psychologist)
On Becoming a Counselor: A Basic Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors and Other Helpers by Kennedy & Sara Charles
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Pirsig (Philosophy in fiction form)
These books I read for entertainment....
Rabbit, Run John Updike
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
The Yearling by Marjorie Rawlings

 

[Marcy Sheiner]

I'm currently reading Playground by Richard Powers, who wrote The Overstory, in which he does for the oceans what he did for the trees.

 

[Rich]

I'm reading the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child. There are 30 books in the series, and I've finished 23 of them so far. There are 2 Reacher movies and a TV series, each season based on one of the books. Season 3 of the series is due to air next month.