Do you read? What are favorites

Marie5656

Marie5656

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I have always been an avid reader, I remember as a child being so excited when I first could read words. I will have to say I have gotten away from reading, but plan to start again once retirement hits. My favorite genres include mystery, suspense, some horror and general fiction. Sometimes I will just browse until a title jumps out at me. I really enjoy the bargain book section of Barnes and Noble, though I have bought many books on Amazon.
I have tried reading e-books but never got the hang of it and much prefer paper books.
 

Last weeks library book sale and I brought home around a hundred...enough that my arms hurt for two days after. I head right to non-fiction...diverse-war and war history, biography, music, dogs, trivia, cultural essays, true crime...the list goes on.
 
I read non fiction local history books and breezy little mystery books when I need a little mind candy.

Things like: Murder She Wrote, The Cat Who, Martha's Vineyard Mystery series, etc...
 

Fiction I have enjoyed over the years has been by Tony Hillerman who wrote mysteries set on the Navajo Indian reservation. He was a prolific writer up until he passed away a few years ago. The Navajos honored him for the excellent portrayal of the tribe. I believe his daughter has picked it up with the same characters. He was a college professor in New Mexico.
John MacDonald wrote mystery/adventure stories set in south Florida. He too was a prolific writer and I still see his books at book sales, even though he died in 1986.
Carl Hiaasen currently writes similar books set in south Florida.
I enjoy used book sales.
 
I don't read much anymore. As I age, my attention span shortens. I guess I'm in the "Reader's Digest" stage of life.....
 
Biographies, memoirs, and history by ereader from the library, but not nearly as much as I used to....
 
Mystery, suspense, courtroom drama, etc. John Grisham and James Patterson, Jeffery Deaver, J.D. Robb, etc. One of my favorite old writers was John Dickson Carr -- I read all of his books in my younger days. Most of them are out of print now and I've been watching for them in used book stores and estate sales. He wrote locked room and sort of creepy stuff, some period stuff. Both my mother and I really enjoyed his books.
 
One fiction author who comes to mind is Susan Wilson. She's written a whole bunch of books but then started theming them on different dogs. "A Man of His Own" and "The Dog Who Saved Me" are two of my favorites. Terry McMillan and Pearl Cleage are very good fiction. I have every book Bill Bryson ever wrote...except still have Little Dribbling on wish list. Oh and Brendan O' Carroll:love_heart:
 
In hotel rooms 4 nights/week. Excellent library in our home town which I frequent every weekend. Always have two or three books with me when I leave home early Monday morning. My first choice is "spook" novels... CIA, etc. clandestine spy novels. I enjoy modern combat novels, FBI, and most any other action type stories. I will read some private investigator, police type novels, but there are many out there and few well written.

I also pick up books each weekend for my wife to read during the week. She reads most of what I bring home for her. If she can't get into them, she will pull books up on her e-reader. She enjoys books set in a historical context. I pick out what I think is the most boring on the "new" shelves and those are what she most generally enjoys! :>)
 
She enjoys books set in a historical context.

I just picked up an oldie but a goodie "Ellis Island". Two others are "Ragtime" and "Backstairs at the White House".
 
I learned to read on the Reader's Digest..still read it.

Me too:DSomething interesting, no one that knows me now would ever believe that I had a terrible time learning to read as a kid. See Jane, see Dick, see Spot run...Maybe it was hard to read because it was so dumb...But my grandfather had maybe three years of Reader's Digest magazines piled up in the dining room. I used to spend the summer there and one day I started picking through them looking for interesting stuff. I think I finished the whole collection by the end of the summer. From then on I was a total bookworm.
 
I read a lot of novels. Historical fiction is my favorite. Lately, I have not been able to find many good novels. Ann Tyler is an author I have been reading for many years. All of her books are good. They are not historical fiction but character studies. Just finished reading "Vinegar Girl" which is a modern take on Shakespeare's "Taming of the Shrew." I enjoyed it very much and hated to come to the end.
 

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