When was the last time you read a book?

The last time I used my free time to read a book and do nothing else was a few weeks ago. I had almost forgotten how wonderful an experience it is. I read books on and off in between work, being online and doing the chores of daily life. But a few weeks ago, I had some time off, I turned off my computer, and I got to spend five whole days engaged in a magical, far away land inside my own mind.

Being online provides a human interchange of sorts. Reading stimulates imagination, thoughts, ideas, and even lowers your blood pressure.

Give yourself a break. Take a vacation from your computer and read a book. You’ll find it’s one of the very best gifts you can give yourself.

I read a book or two a week.

I read about 60 books a year

Couldn't live without books.

Books are treasures, the values of which increased with every new reader.

Songs in Ordinary Times by Mary McGarry Morris.

I always have a book!

I read a book every day or so (I read fast).

I agree, there are few things that can replace just reading for pleasure...and I prefer to use actual books.


I'm in the middle of one now.

I'm no technophobe, but a real book just feels better to me...it's part of the experience.

love me my books!

John Gierach about fly fishing.

Only on page 16 but so far so good.

You are so right,before Computers got me hooked, I always had a book at my fingertips.

from her as to good books to read.

With the shit that appears on TV, I often sit down with a book instead of zoning out in front of the tube. It is a totally different experience.

And, for what it's worth, I prefer actual books to the electronic versions. Something about holding that in your hands and turning the pages. But, I am old and maybe most of what I am and do are simply relics from the past. But, Jean Luc liked his volumes, too.

I too love to hold a book in my hands and turn the pages.

I pity those who come after us who will never have this experience.

I feel sorry for people who never discover how great reading books can be, especially the youth of today don't seem to read books, its like they all have A.D.D. or something.

That's bull. I've got ADD, and I love to read. The problem is that our society doesn't value intellectual pursuits.

:thumbsup:

I try to set aside at least an hour and a half each day for reading.

Last night I was reading a history of Leonardo, Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia. Pure pleasure.

by Tim Parks. It sounds like it might interest you. Parks is a novelist and has written a very lively account of the rise of the Medici banking family and its "contribution" to modern banking. It is also instructive about how big money took over a republic and overwhelmed a constitutional democracy. Sound familiar? Just finished the chapter on how the Pazzi family tried to assassinate both Giuliani and Lorenzo Medici but only got Giuliano in the Church of the Santa Croce during mass. A good read.

What's the name of your history on Leonardo, Machiavelli and Cesare Borgia? I'd like to read it as I am doing a crash course on the Italian Renaissance prior to a trip to Florence in September. A lot to cover!

by Paul Strathern, I believe the chap's name is. Quite enjoyable history of that extraordinary moment in Italy's history between the founding of the New World and the Reformation.

Your book sounds quite interesting as well!

:toast:

a dizzying, while wonderful, experience. I've now read two books on Brunelleschi and one on Donatello. This one is more centered on the banking/arts nexus of the Medicis. Very interesting.

Get hold of this one. If you like politics, history and art, you will love it!:hi:

News isn't always predictable, but it's very unusual for something truly surprising to appear in the headlines.

But you start reading history, and -- my God -- it's absolutely astounding.

It seems like Parks was saying that we should beware of this. Yet it seems it is inevitable. The Florentines valued their republic and wanted to preserve it. How did they let it slip thru their fingers? Are we headed (or have we already headed) in that direction?

It's a little depressing...

and I didn't even finish it before lending it to someone else. Big mistake -- now I'll have to get another copy.

Some of the things I remember were not really to your point. The ways that the Medici family operated a far-flung empire without instant communication was impressive, as well as the ways they were able to skirt the usury laws through a complex set of artificial trades. Even though we would see some of those things as harmless today, you can see the kind of thinking that inevitably led to credit default swaps, If laws are the only obstacle to a financial transaction, a banker or trader is going to figure out a way around them.

I had never heard of before, and found that strange but impressive in a way. It seems like demagoguery today, but the goal was to reduce social tensions caused by inequality. Economic classes were pressed together back then -- you didn't have the barriers of private vehicles and gated communities. It was not only Italy -- even Japan had similar laws at the time, which led the business class in Osaka to develop a whole lifestyle around the ways in which they could legitimately spend their money --- eating, drinking, and partying in private.

As far as the ways in which the Medici undermined democracy, it was fascinating but depressing. The ways in which the Italian city-states tried to ensure that the government represented the public will demonstrated a long-standing struggle for democracy. But it was inevitable that someone as rich as wily as Cosimo Medici would be able to subvert the popular will. And the way he orchestrated his exile and used it as an economic weapon was kind of impressive.

It shows how long standing the fight is between the economic elite and the popular will. And suggests that the rules need to keep evolving to keep up with the ways the rich use to control government.

It's interesting. Have you ever heard the argument that an economic situation, called monopsony, is the reason for the phenomenon of the Italian Renaissance in art? Monopsony is the opposite of monopoly, I have late learned, wherein you have one buyer and many sellers instead of the other way around. In the case of the Medici, they were THE buyer in many cases , altho other wealthy individuals did indeed buy art, because they spent tons of money getting the best that they could. And the people supported it because it added so much to the fabulization of their Florence. It remains fabulous today. Even Hitler could not bear to blow up the Ponte Vecchio when the German army was retreating and blew up all of the other bridges in Florence because of the advance of Allied forces (in actuality, the Santa Trinita was more valued by art historians because Michelangelo designed it, but Hitler didn't know this). Speaking of this, you could read "The Venus Fixers," about the huge effort by American and British art historians, museum directors and curators and academics, who mounted a fierce effort to direct Allied bombing away from key monuments, churches and other places in Italy that were or housed great art. Fascinating read! It came out a few months ago. I felt like crying when I read about the bridges...

but it is true that the list of patrons must have been pretty small. It must have been an outrage at the time to purists, but it's ineresting how the Medicis got themselves painted in as Biblical characters in all those paintings. enaissance paintings were never pure -- there were all sorts of things going on behind the scenes.

As Tim Parks wrote:



It's very relevant right now, with the huge inequality between the top and bottom.

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and The Gulag Archipielago...

What a GREAT story that was! A fine story and so well written...

when I visited Pamplona, Spain in 2008 I found the bar in the hotel he used to go into for drinks. They have a wooden statue of him there, actually sitting at the end of the bar! It's kind of unsettling at first and then you "get it." Pamplona was very upscale, to my utter surpise, and very cool...I'd like to go back!

In the Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, he tells that when the KGB confiscated Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago, the typist of the manuscript hanged herself.
And we complain about the little annoyances we have to deal with...

I have got whole bookcases of unread books that I want to get through, but since I'm a slow reader (due to my stupidity), it takes me a while to get through books that everyone else can breeze through in a day or two. Working on Stephen King book currently. :hi:

Well, I guess we both belong to the same club.

I've been a slow reader my whole life. On the other hand, I find I have very good retention. I'll often find myself quoting a line I read 20 years ago.

And then I completely space out what is an essential part of the story - like, for example, the main character's spouse is murdered, and I'll be like, "Wait! What happened to Yolanda? Why are they holding a funeral for her?" :rofl: so it's important for me (I find) that I read slowly. Esp. Agatha Christie. ;)

I can read over 500 words a minute and scream through a book overnight. My husband, who is dyslexic, might take a month or more to read the same book, but while I will have only a vague impression of the book he will have a better grasp of concepts and details. I compensate by being a whiz at remembering where to go back to dig up the facts and details, but he is better at putting together the larger picture.

My grandfather wasn't a speed reader and when someone brought it up he said the above. And he did - if you asked him a month after he'd finished a book he could still remember more of it than the speedier guy.

Although I'm a slow reader, this was a book I didn't want to end. The words were a symphany.

It's the only book Harper Lee ever wrote. And perhaps that's just as well. It would have been impossible to match.

I want to re-read that now :rofl:

I don't want it to end, and I do like to savor a really finely written novel. :)

Takes a month or more to get through a book. But I don't rush and just enjoy what I'm reading.

either towards the end of a book, if I am eager to start on something else, or else if I'm really enjoying the book, then I just sail through, and it's not a challenge at all to not let myself get distracted. A recent read that went like that was "Crota" by Owl Goingback - not exactly Ulysses or even To Kill A Mockingbird, but very fun, just the kind of story I enjoy, told from a slightly different perspective (native American). :) I read that in two days.

about backpacking (though I've never been) to read it. I've always got something around to read. And, you're right. It's nice to turn off the computer for awhile and read a book.


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spare moment. I've read more than 20 books since I got the thing in November. I can't say enough about the thing. It has exceeded every possible expectation that I had about it.

My daughter is now 24 and was never a "reader". I got her a Kindle for christmas and she carries it around like a baby and reads like crazy now.

Do you think that would work for a 13 year old too? I'm trying to get my daughter to read more too.

The "Twilight" series? I just finished the first one (I'm 51!) and I loved it! Can't wait to read the rest!

Yes, she did read all of those and I did too. I'd like to find another equally compelling series for her.

It is also young adult.

in another vampire series, I forget the name, the one where the tattoos appear on the young vampires faces. I will check this one out too if it is not the same one. Thanks!

I saw this at the bookstore tonight and it was different from the series I got so I bought the first two books in one volume. Thanks again!

I am so into teen vampire stories lately. Girly and cheesy but fun. :)

is excellent - my daughter was about the same age when she and all of her friends read them. I read them as well and thought they were excellent.

They keep you enthralled and make you think.

I just bought the first one -- I need to buy a few more for her. I think she read it or is reading it. These types of books seem to work with her -- kids around her own age. A woman at the book store told me lots of adults buy this series too. I started it and then my daughter took it away to read it. Need to go get it back from her so I can finish it.

I'm a 62 year old avid reader, and I REALLY like the Kindle. I've probably read a dozen books on it since I got it for Christmas. It is SO convenient. I take it everywhere. If I have a few moments, I read.

I am thinking it might be good for me on a flight to Europe in the early fall. It looks fascinating...

You won't believe the satisfaction. There are very few products left that makes one feel so satisfied with purchase.

I can go through the books even faster. In fact, I think I blew my Kindle out. My first one (first generation) died on me last week already. Lest anyone take this as a black mark on the Kindle, I'm rough on my electronics, unfortunately, and I suspect how it met its demise, though I'm not sure.

Reading is my one favorite relaxing past time.

Kinda sucked- a book of short stories by Colin Dexter (Inspector Morse fame).
Now I'm on to more Ian Rankin- can't get enough of his stuff!
I read on the bus to and from work. I really relish that time before getting home to walk the dog, do chores, cook dinner....

this morning. I take public transportation so it gives me time to read. :)

read it, but Sagan has/had the ability to stretch your imagination beyond our tiny, and increasingly suicidal planet.

It just took this one book to get me going again and to remind me of the joy I've been missing for so long. My TV is rarely on these days.

Since the mid-70's.

Right now I'm on Momus by Alberti.

Presently reading 'Dark Alliance' by Gary Webb, and 'The Family' by Jeff Sharlet.

(to Chicago)

a book called Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales. It's about how people behave when they get into life-threatening situations and who survives and why. Scary stuff but very insightful and highly recommended, especially for outdoor, adventure-loving types.

About why deadly diseases are bred into our genetic code.

Another great book is Freakonomics. Reading SuperFreakonomics now.

few decades.



mark

Every day I have time to read at least 30 min.

I ran out of new books and I've been re-reading a book I read a few years ago. I usually get through at least 1 chapter a night. I cannot read while in bed before I fall asleep, because it'll keep me up. I try and always read in the evening. I'm actually cutting back on the amount of time spent online in the evening, and reading is a great way to do that.

I'll hit up the book store this weekend and pick up something new to read, I don't want to wait on an Amazon delivery.

Dinner we had to have as a family and talk. Otherwise we were buried in books.

We had to institute that rule, or we'd all be buried in our books - especially my ten yo!

have to be back at the library in 14 days, so I have to read fast!

I do sometimes take a break from books to catch up on my magazines, but I always need something to read. And there's really nothing like a book. Reading on a computer is just not the same.

And yes, I'm like you - it's the fiction that I love, and being taken away to someplace...

OK, my guilty pleasure; it's "chick-lit" and keeps me amused.

It's almost as addicting as this damn internet!

t.:)

probably 25 of the last 30 books I've "read" have actually been audiobooks I've listened to on my iPod, driving to and from work, doing the dishes, etc.

It's a great way to pass the time in the car.

Sid

I'm a book acquisitions editor and I read some good books, some awful books, and even some unreadable books. When I go home at night, I read books (but mostly ones other editors have already "fixed").

BTW - There is surprisingly little difference in the publishing rates between good, awful, and unreadable submissions...a couple of the "worst" manuscripts that came in here were developed into excellent books. Bad writing can be fixed, bad ideas can't.

As someone who used to have problems keeping enough new reading material around, I would have loved that job. Now the internet gives me fresh reading material so I am not as desperate as I used to be.

I've been a writer/reporter, then worked in the magazine business for years. Books are wonderful, and working with authors to make them seems to be what I was put here for. I do wish I had the chance to do some non-fiction, but I might never take a day off if I did.

Toward an American Revolution
Exposing the Constitution & Other Illusions

by Jerry Fresia

I wish it could be made required reading for everyone.

Just finished one, and have two more on deck.

I come from a family of voracious readers.

for myself...

Try the latest Newbery Award winner--When You Reach Me. It's a good read.

I read while I am eating, while waiting for appointments, and while doing anything else where I cannot have a computer. Right now I am reading a history of our geographical area that starts right after the Civil War and ends when the book was published in 1967. After this one was a success, the author wrote one that covered from the just pre-Spanish Colonial period to 1865 - I read that one first to keep the historical sequence in order.

Before I started these, I re-read a series of comedy/mysteries by Janet Evanovich - her Stephanie Plum character, the bounty hunter from hell, is great comedy relief!

Have you read "The Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara? Great read for Civil War buffs!

And I am involved peripherally with a project that this history is relevant to, so I thought I would pick up these books and actually read them. Mr. csziggy read them years ago and tried to get me to then, but I was into other things at the time.

I may have to read up on the Civil War for a different project, though, so I will keep that one in mind. I never realized that Michael Shaara was a local here at FSU! Maybe his book would be more relevant to the current project than I thought.

It started off pretty slow, but I really like it now.

As far as reading goes, I am always reading a book. I finish one and I pick up another. I love to read!

Grafton's "U for Undertow" and John Sandfords's "Rough Country"

I am half way through "Blink" and then will be onto a Michael Connelly ("Scarecrow")

Just because I am on the computer doesn't mean that I can't also read books, keep the house, work full-time, and socialize!

Generally have a couple going at the same time. I read 6-7 on a slow week, which is probably why the librarians greet me by name when I go in. I am lucky that I have always been a fast reader.

a lot of graphic novels, The walking Dead, The Preacher.

and a lot of nerd stuff. I've been reading Singularity is Near for a while now. I stop periodically to research more when i run into something that i don't know much about.

learning a lot about molecular engineering lately.
i was reading up on the nanotech involving DNA based "arms" or "fingers" for nanobots.

pretty neat stuff.

Most recently on the bus to work this morning.

(i typ gud)

I have to have "physical" books, too. The Kindle gizmo has zero appeal to me. Usually I buy books at the thrift shop or pick them up for free, but I try to keep a pile going.

We just culled some books as we were running out of room. My wife is first logging all of them (so we don't accidentally buy one we've already read) and we're taking about 400 or so books to the reseller.

You can catalogue your books online. All you have to enter is the isbn and it pulls up all the publishing data for you. (You can also purchase a scanner and it becomes even easier.)
I'm at http://www.librarything.com/profile/sisaruus

I will have to check out all of its functions. Thanks for sharing that.

its full and now more in piles. i am thinking he has to clean the bookshelf out next to it too. lol

:shrug:

she was younger) that the best punishment for her was to take her books away. My son informed me that my oldest grand daughter is following in the footsteps of her aunt. Books are a staple in this house!

at least 2 books a week. I am a scrounge and get my books at thrift shops, library sales, yard sales in summer. I make sure I have a stockpile for the winter months. When I have a bag of a dozen or so, I give them to the thrift shop so they can resell them.

As much as I'd like to buy new, the budget does not allow it. I pass the real good ones to friends.

I'll read anything except Steven King type books and the "boob" novels. Too much cleavage on the cover, I leave it on the shelf. Usually the content of the boob books is a little too lacking in just about everything. As for SK, I don't need nightmares, life is scary enough.

Which was in October. I know, shame on me.

I just finished one yesterday: "The Same Stuff as Stars" by Katherine Paterson.

I'm trying to remember where I put my copy of Barbara Tuchmann's "A Distant Mirror" because I want to read it again.

I have 2 young kids, so I don't read as much as I used to, but I love mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction & nonfiction. I want them to see me reading in the hope they'll pick up on it! (My DH never reads anything but the paper.)

Fun books as a break before I start some big pieces in my lit classes I'm teaching.

Some wag once said "Never trust anyone who doesn't have a library card." Ya think Dumbya had a library card?

books and having stacks of them unread waiting to be read.

I read a book today, I am reading Henry Paulson's book and Ozzy Osbournes autobiography, as well as two very interesting books:

Daniel Boorstin's THE IMAGE: A GUIDE TO PSEUDO-EVENTS IN AMERICA and

Neal Gabler's LIFE: THE MOVIE: HOW ENTERTAINMENT CONQUERED REALITY.

Next in line is Daniel Goldhagen's WORSE THAN WAR: GENOCIDE, ELIMINATIONISM AND THE ONGOING ASSAULT ON HUMANITY.

I love books, always have and always will.

I finished 3 last week but getting a slow start on the one I am reading now.

I remember hiding beneath the covers as a kid and reading one of my books by flashlight. That's how it all started.

I literally HAVE to read in order to be happy.

Read a James Patterson novel. I like that guy. I suppose a lot of people here don't, but I don't care. Btw, the novel was entitled, "Cross Country".

I'd like to read more but, alas, a job keeps getting in the way. I do find that I can't read at night as I fall asleep two paragraphs in. So I set my alarm early and build a half hour into the morning schedule to read before I get ready for work. Weekends, however, are meant for curling up with a book or two (or few).

My reading list is at http://www.librarything.com/profile/sisaruus

I NEVER use "e-books." Forget 'em.

I want something tangible.

I miss being able to take an entire day and do nothing but read, though. Just spend a Saturday with book on the couch and not even notice or care about the time. It's been years since I've done that.

..... It takes me a while to get through them with my sked, but I've committed to it, and it is indeed wonderful.

I'm just finishing up "Deep Economy" by Bill McKibben.

150 books last year. 32 so far this year.

I read quite a bit.

I go a little mad when I can't.

I have been in the politcal scandal mood...Game Change, The Politician and now The Audacity to Win by Plouffe.

get through about a book a month that way.

And two of Uncle John' Bathroom Readers published by the Bathroom Readers Institute so you know its all legit, there are others but I have two ~ Fast-Acting Long-Lasting & Legendary Lost, for instance...Did you know that: One Nuclear Bomb Can Ruin Your Whole Day?

Well, apparently, as it turns out: It Can! :nuke:

When the weather is nice, I'll go sit in the swing on the front deck and lose myself in a good book. Right now, I'm re-reading the Sword of Truth series. I've actually turned on a couple of people to the series, but I'm stil ahead of them. I'm seeing and reading a lot of things I didn't see the first time, and some of the things I saw the first time I am now seeing "in a new light".

BTW, there is now a TV series "Legend of the Seeker" loosley based on the books. I don't know why I still watch the TV show because it just pisses me off.

But one of the reasons I started re-reading the series is because there is nothing like immersing yourself in a good book that captures the imagination and stimulates your intelligence.

Sword of Truth did it for me. Lord of the Rings also did it for me. Isaac Asimov changed my life. You may prefer Hemingway.

But there is nothing like a good book to allow your imagination to soar and take you to places and situations that you have never experienced before.

Movies are good, but they don't let you imagine much. When you read a book, you decide what the characters look like in your mind.. you decide what the landscape looks like... you decide. It's all up to your imagination. You create the "movie" in your mind the way you think it should be.

There is nothing like a good book.

Most people regard him as a sci-fi writer, but his knowledge of the sweep of history was breathtaking.

(I once had the opportunity to exchange correspondence with him and I still have a short note from him in which he admitted that he wouldn't fly. That's like Jean Luc Picard fearing open spaces.)

I finished Hearts in Atlantis Monday, and I'm about 100 pages out from finishing Everything's Eventual by S. King.

Right now I am reading How Green Was My Valley by Richard LLewellyn. The story of life in a coal mining town in Wales early 1900s. It is breathtakingly beautiful and really sad too. I highly recommend it.

never read the book -- thanks for the recommendation. I like historical fiction anyway, my favorite genre for reading for pleasure.

But the book is absolutely to be savored.

I'm starting the Fablehaven series with my daughter...

Great line, true and funny.

Fabulous!

Mostly politics, history and baseball history. Occasionally I'll re-read Asimov's robot/foundation series and other science fiction.
Right now I'm reading a bio on Satchel Paige. When I'm done I'll read the bio on Willie Mays.

ahead at the end of the ninth, he'd wave them off the field. All he needed was a catcher. He never had any doubt that he could strike out the last three men, no matter who they were.

It's too bad that most of us never got to see him pitch. People who have seen him recalled that he was probably the greatest pitcher who ever lived. Where was TV when we needed it?

Excellent analysis and history of Pakistan. I just did it. It is hard to get time having to
work all the f'ing time to pay my self employed health insurance rates. But it was and is worth
it. I've got a stack of them at varying degrees of completion. That's the good news. The other
good news is I'm going after it big time in about 3-4 days, specifically cleaning up time wasting
stuff to just read and enjoy.

Excellent thread.

Being in China, my books are limited in English.

Thank God for www.gutenberg.org.

I'm going to read King Lear next.

what may get you into trouble, or worse, in China. Nonetheless, I'm glad that you have access to books. My hope for you is that, someday, you will be able to walk into someplace like the New York Public Library which will put the entire world at your fingertips.

Take care.

When I'm not nodding off due to exhaustion, anyway. :eyes:

anymore. :-(

Been working on an art project for a couple of months and that has sucked up all my creative, intelligent side (DU clearly hasn't, as anyone can tell from my posts lol)).

I spent the day at various doctor's and labs, prepping for surgery next week. Luckily I had my Kindle with me.

I find myself obsessing with whatever I'm doing at the time. If I'm online, I'll stay online for hours and hours. Once I finally close the laptop and pick up my Kindle or a book, that's the day shot right there.

Not in a leisurely way, a few minutes here, a few there. I can rack up the pages that way though. I once read an 800 page book in a week that way. Whenever I'd have even a moment I'd read it, maybe just a few paragraphs at a time but I got through it (it was a very good book).

To my fellow readers! :toast:

Julie

In fact, a few years ago, I had to remind myself to breathe. I've never had to remind myself to read.

Right now I am starting on shutter island. I am a speed reader and used to read a few novels a week. Not sure why I stopped. I started reading more serious non-fiction, but I think it gets a bit to heavy on the brain. Light, fanciful reading and use of ones imagination is just as important, imho.

I just went through the entire zombie genre, sharing them with my son. I highly recommend two books by Mel Brooks son, Max Brooks, World War Z and A Zombie survival guide. The latter being VERY amusing indeed.

Cyrano

Last night, as I allways do before going to sleep.. Most it goes a few pages before I is sleepy enough to turn around and then the ZZZZZ is going on:P

And I have a ton of books, who I discoved when I moved resently, most of my box was full of books..

Diclotican

Read "The Politician" over the weekend because we were snowed in.

Getting "Death of American Virtue" this weekend. It's pretty long so I'll something for a while.

That is, I'm always working my way through one book or another, not actually constantly reading.

And I have done so for decades.

it's a school assignment. Facebook and Myspace don't count.

It is nice to be able to carry a bunch of books with me.

It is my constant companion and I am able to pull it out if I'm waiting in line or whatever.

I am, sadly, a narrative junkie....I need the story to survive.

this year this AM.

Perhaps Steve Jobs was right a few years ago when he asserted that Kindle would fail, because no one reads anymore?

Reading a book (currently reading 4 non-technical books) seems to allow for more thought on the subject than does sitting at a computer.

I'm re-reading In Our Defense, Voices of Peoples History (Because I love the speeches and letters) and I'm reading a book called Pride of Carthage by David Anthony Durham that is just the greatest book, a fictional account of The Second Punic War from several different points of view. Great book.

I have thousands of books and couldn't live without them.

Great way to take a little vacation.

Finished The Catcher In the Rye.

Holden Caulfield is an asshole. A dickish, self-centered asshole.

Should start on Hennin Mankell's The White Lioness tomorrow.

I'd forgotten how much fun fiction was. :hi:

I go through a few books a month.

read them right now. :)

I read books daily.

and cueing up "The Women" for next. I have to have a couple going at once and one or more in the wings...

I finished "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty," by Sebastian Barry.

Last week it was the newest from John Burdett, "The Godfather of Khatmandu," and the week before that it was John Banville's "The Sea." Then last month I finished "Nothing Like It In The World," by Stephen Ambrose, preceded by Barry's "The Secret Scripture."

And on it goes. I usually get one read per week. I have a huge stack of books in a pile next to my nightstand. Between bedtime after my wife goes to sleep and those stolen moments during the day, lunch, commute, waiting at appointments, etc., I manage about one per week.

Many years ago I developed the preference for reading to pass the time and to keep my head active.

I have not been disappointed.




Just my dos centavos


robdogbucky

I have a Kindle so I and I have about 24 different books in there..a few that I am actively reading, and others I use when I need inspiration or a lift...

I'd go mad without books...

Very interesting!

My son sent me this video. It's a take off on the "Tonight's Gonna Be Good Night" Oprah episode. I really enjoyed watching the kids perform.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6D9jiEYxzs

very good :)

n/t

Havent gotten around to reading more yet.

you can never have enough books