I love to read, it is one of my favorite things to do in the entire world. I started reading in all my spare time as a child because I was not the most popular girl and it took away some of the unhappiness of not getting invited to parties or to dances, I could curl up with a good book and find myself transported to any destination and have lots more fun than I would have with my peers. I love to read most all fiction but I my favorites are horror suspense type books, not slasher or graphic novels but a good haunted house tale or a great Stephen King, Dean Koontz or John Saul kind of book. What type of books does the avid reader kither enjoy?

i love mysteries. am a very avid reader also

I love to read and i always have a book going even if it takes a while to find time to read it. i love mysteries of all kinds espcially janet evanovich and fantasy stuff like tolken, narnia.

I love to read, too. In fact I just finished a Clive Cussler novel. I think I've read all of his now. I love to read all types of books, but especially love Historical Fiction, and Action-Adventure types.

suesue

Katybird-I relate to those memories. I like to read a lot of "junk food" books. John Grisham, modern woman books (like Sex and the City) and things that I see on the Bestseller's list. I've had to supplement my reading addiction with used books because I realized how much I was spending on new!

I've tried getting library books-but I reread books and I'll remember a certain passage from a book I've read long ago and want to read it again. So I like to keep books I read on one of my bookshelves.

I read at least an hour a day. I would read more except for silly things like kids, eatting, sleeping and the ever annoying thing of RUNNING OUT OF BOOKS TO READ! HAHA!

Recently I've been reading more non-fiction books but mostly I read fantasy novels. :)

reading is my favourite thing to do, I was always a big reader as a child and Ciara has my love of books too, one of the first things i remember when I was about 7 was saving up my pocket money each week and buying the famous five series

I like most Genre of books, i love mystery thriller forensic types, Kathy Reichs, Nikki French, Lee Child, David Baldacci, James patterson, Harlan Coban........

I love Historical fiction type books, Barbara Erskine and Elizabeth Chadwick ( the brit author NOT the american eliz chadwick romance novelist!)

I also love my *rainy day easy reading books* Cathy Kelly, Maeve Binchy, Cecelia Ahern, Louise Bagshaw.

and fantasy type ones..Terry Pratchett anyone?

Im also reading alot of Nora Roberts ( and her alter ego JD Robb)at the moment

Katybird - I LOVE John saul - I was a huge fan of his during my teenage years and I have all the Stephen Kings although I havnt been impressed with them in later years.

Oh the list could go on and on!!!

I LOVE TO READ!!! I don't have the time to read as much as I would like, and I honestly can say that I miss it terribly. While I was at the hospital with the baby, I had dh bring me "Next" by Michael Crichton, and while Matty would sleep, I would read. Now, I'm frustrated because I want to keep reading it all the time, but the time is gone again! I feel like there is always something else I should be doing when I sit down to read. Very frustrating.

I love to read mysteries like James Patterson and Jeffrey Deaver, legal thrillers like John Grisham, medical science books like Michael Crichton, and sci-fi type things like Dean Koontz. I used to love Maeve Binchy, but somewhere along the way, the romantic novel started to bore me.

I am an avid reader. I have always loved mystery books. My favorites are Mary Higgins Clark, Terri Blackstock, and John Grisham.

I love Grisham, Evanovich, Cornwell, Sanford, my list could go on and on as well

~I'm a big reader too. I spent most of my youth reading the classics and mysteries. I've tried reading thrillers and bestsellers and I've always been bored or disgusted. I like Christian romance alot, even though I know they're corny. Lately I'm in a history/biography kick. I'm reading a biography of Milton Hershey right now.~

I LOVE READING!I don't have near enough time to do it between work/school/baby/housework, but I love to read! I just finished two Steve Berry books---kinda Da Vinci codish but very good!

Me! Me! Me!

Huge fan of Stephen King, James Patteson, Janet Evanovich, Dean Koontz (eagerly waiting for the 3rd installment of the Frankenstein series!)

I am.

iida

I like all types of books both fiction and non-fiction. Always seem to have 2 or 3 going at one time. Theres one in my van for when I've got to wait on someone "The Yarn Harlot the secret life of a knitter" by Stephanie Pearl - Mcphee, next to the bed is "Horseshoes, Cowsocks and Duckfeet" By Baxter Black, by my chair in the livingroom on the top of the 3 foot stack is "Grape Expectations" By Tamar Myers. In my stack are a few more by her also J.A. Jance. Waiting for the next J.D. Robb to come out I like Dallas. The bathrooms both have travelbooks in them 1001 places you should see before you die and Exciting Travel Places.
I'm one of those folks whos list of want to reads is longer then the national debt and I'm making better progress. I always look for the used book stores when we go out of town and will always leave a yardsale with a pile.

Laurie in BRadenton

I love to read and my parents say I was born reading because it seems like I always have a book in my hands. :) I'll read just about anything. I seem to enjoy the "chick lit" of the past few years but lately I've been more disciplined and am reading 4-5 non-fiction for every fiction book. My sister teases me that my favorite kind of book is a "book about books". (Books about reading, suggested reading lists, etc.).

The only thing I read over and over again these days (other than my Bible) is Jane Austen. I used to buy tons of books and read them over and over but I don't really do that anymore. Most things I read once and then move on to something new.

According to family legend, I could read very well by the time I was 3....I literally cannot personally remember ever not reading. It has always been, and remains my favorite activity. I read just about anything I can get my hands on (including food labels) with a few exceptions:
NO romance, Western religion, or overly-prolific writers who churn out countless books that are boringly similar to each other.

My faves are classics, biographies, true-crime, philosophy, history, non-fiction books on old-timey skills and living (like the Fox Fire series), cookbooks. Once in a great while I like to read something utterly nasty, trashy and with no redeeming values, just to add spice.

I love reading, most anything I can get my hands on, books, magazines, newspapers.
My favorite part of having apppointments is getting to read in the waiting room or when traveling getting to read in the car or on the plane.

I also love to read. I read the Bible for an hour every day and a work of fiction for an hour. I am a big Stephen King fan. I just finished reading Cell by SK and just started Lisey's Story also by SK.

I am an avid reader! My mom said, from the time I was old enough to walk and talk I would chase her around with a stack of books saying, "read! read!" She said this would be an all day event :) My poor mom! I learned to read at around 5 years old and I haven't put books down since. My mom was so happy when I finally learned to read to myself, I chased her around to do it a lot less. I even started teaching my sister how to read after I learned. I don't know if I was a help at all but I guess I tried. :) I usually have a few books going at once. My favorite books are light fiction without a lot of adult content or violence, frugal books, books on finance, self improvement books, the Harry Potter books :), and books by John Grisham (my favorite author). I also like magazines, my favorite one is Real Simple.

I am and always have been an avid reader. I used to always have a book in my purse and several going at home. I read mostly at home now.

My main favorites are mystery, esp forensic. Bio and autobio and memoir. (I seldon read a "star" bio) I love non-fiction about people or history.

I like Jewish fiction, self-improvement.

I never read sci-fi, fantasy, or regular romance. I read Christian "romance" only if it has historical basis. I like Karen Kingsbury and Dee Henderson the most.

I love to read! A couple of my favorite authors are Agatha Christie and Diana Gabaldon. I can read their books over and over!

I sometimes feel like I've spent most of my life reading, though I read less now than I used to. I read Vedanta (a form of Hinduism), science fiction --currently reading Polaris by ... darn, just forgot his name... and recently stumbled across the Mrs. Tim Christie series by D.E. Stephenson -- enjoyable gentle fiction from a gentler literary age (they were written in the 40's).

I like hearing what others are reading. It points me at things I might enjoy.

I have always loved to read. I am a librarian now in a small college library so I do not run out of things to read. I like to have a fiction and a non-fiction book going all the time. I love most genres but not thrillers and suspense stuff. Romance stuff mostly bores me. I read the Hershey bilgraphy and loved it. We all love Jane Austen in this house.

Right now I am reading a book on mythology and a biography on the Comptesse du Barry. Next I want to read the Aenead (sp?).

Should we post book recommendations?

[QUOTE=Katybird;676172]I love to read, it is one of my favorite things to do in the entire world. I started reading in all my spare time as a child because I was not the most popular girl and it took away some of the unhappiness of not getting invited to parties or to dances, I could curl up with a good book and find myself transported to any destination and have lots more fun than I would have with my peers. QUOTE]

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I couldn't have said it better. By the time I was old enough to rebell at my parents restrictiveness and had developed a small circle of friends I was already in love with all the places I could go. There is never enough time in my life for all the reading that could be done. I too frequently feel guilty about what else "should" be getting done and so I read less frequently than I would like so that I can enjoy it when I do.

I currently am reading the non-fiction Rape Of Nanking (Suggesting this to everyone....can't believe how well "not" talked about in classrooms this atrocity against China has been. I've taken in depth history classes covering the time period and never heard a word) Also currently reading Full Moon Rising by Keri Arthur.....completely junk food reading but I'm barrelling through it. (Vampire/wolf guardian) Not one of the better vampire/warewolf genre I've been zooming through lately but a quick read. Moon Called by Patricia Briggs was much better.

I LOVE books with kick-butt female lead charecters .... :mdance:
~JD Robbs' Dallas is awesome.
~I also really like Anita Blake in the I guess it's Anita Blake vampire hunter series by Laurell K. Hamilton (I don't like Laurell's Meredith Gentry fairey series though) However if you're going to read the Anita Blake stuff I strongly suggest starting at the beginning of the series. I'm reading stuff now in her later books that would have probably made me put the books down for one reason or another had I not followed the development of the charecters through the series. (as a warning ... definately more sexually graphic later in the series)
~Evanovich's Stephanie Plum is like a lost friend from home
~Iris Johanson generally has some very strong leading ladies as well

My fiction reading goes in cycles. Currently I'm doing mostly trashy vampire warewolf stuff :vamp: (Kind of embaressing ....but that's where I'm at):blush: I've done true crime, historical romance, lawyer/cop suspense stuff (Grisham/ Rosenberg/Patterson/Green/Robb...yada...yada), Oprah recommends, and so on. Generally what will happen is I'll be looking for something new, test something that sounds good and fall in love with an author or a genre. I generally have at least one historical non-fiction (real life is usually more amazing than fiction) and one financial/simplicity/philosophy type going as well as whatever fiction I'm reading to transport me to an alternate world.

Sorry this was so long guys.... I could talk about books for HOURS!!!!

Should we post book recommendations?

I second the question???

I'd love to see recommendations somewhere......is it over in the leisure section or do we do it here?

I LOVE TO READ!!! I have been reading since I was 4 years old.

I used to be a big fan of Stephen King, and I still think 'The Stand' is his best. The last of his books that I liked was 'The Green Mile.'

Anyway, these days I am really into religious material (Catholic). I have kids and goddaughters, so I figure it is up to me to be informed about our faith and pass it on.

I like history a lot (my major in college). I am reading a book about Lewis and Clark right now by Stephen Ambrose--one of the best historians of our time. I like a little historical fiction now and then.

I also like true crime every so often; politics; and biographies.

I am trying to read the classics right now. My latest was 'Sense and Sensibility' by Jane Austen. If the roads get better, I am going to the library tomorrow to get some more!

I like reading more than one book at a time--my brain switches gears a lot :smhelp:

I am an obsessive reader. I've always got at least four different books "going" at one time. One in my car for when I get stopped by trains or caught behind an accident or something. One at work for lunchtimes, one in my bedroom and one in the "little girl's room." I read just about anything. I love Piers Anthony, Ray Bradbury and anything sci-fi/fantasy. I love Dean Koontz, Stephen King, I enjoy classics like Moby Dick, Jane Eyre. Just about anything.

Why don't we start a forum called the library wher we can make book recommendatios and post about the books we are reading?

Well, if you like science/medical thrillers, then "Next" by Michael Crichton is for you. It's about the creation and selling of new genes to stop certain behaviors or to start certain behaviors. In one storyline, and man is having his ex-wife genetically tested to show that she carries the gene for instability so that he can have custody of their children. In another, storyline, a scientist has injected his genes into ape ovum and they've created a speaking, human-like ape. It's really interesting and speaks to the danger of genetic testing and experimentation.

Why don't we start a forum called the library wher we can make book recommendatios and post about the books we are reading?

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I second the motion!!!! (I think it's a great idea!!!) Then the threads could be actual books or authors. It doesn't necessarily need to be a full forum it be a sub-forum and maybe replace the book club sub-forum or be a seperate sub-forum in the larger leisure forum. Whadya all think???? and if there's a large positive consensis how do we get pqb57's idea in play????

For the time being, we can post about it in the Book Club. Technically, it's like a large book club with different people posting about different books.

I loooooove to read. I read my way through my bookshelves, top to bottom, once a year. I have a bunch of favorite authors, but off the top of my head....Jean Auel, Diana Gabaldon, L. M. Montgomery, James Michener, Julie Garwood, Francine Rivers, C. S. Lewis, David Eddings, Christopher Stasheff.

For non-fiction, I read anything and everything on gardening, country life, livestock and agriculture.

I love to read!! Right now I'm into Janet Evanovich, Patricia Cornwell and just picked up a couple of James Pattersons to try. I love VC Andrews, The Cat Who Books and my all time favorite-Nancy Drew!

I read all the time, fiction or nonfiction, doesn't matter!

..... my all time favorite-Nancy Drew!

Sparks a question for me.....I know lots of people read Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys as kids but did anyone else out there preferr the Trixie Belden Mysteries????? Now there was a girl after my own heart. I especially liked one of the first ones in the series where she sneaks into an old misers mansion.

Well, if you like science/medical thrillers, then "Next" by Michael Crichton is for you. It's about the creation and selling of new genes to stop certain behaviors or to start certain behaviors. In one storyline, and man is having his ex-wife genetically tested to show that she carries the gene for instability so that he can have custody of their children. In another, storyline, a scientist has injected his genes into ape ovum and they've created a speaking, human-like ape. It's really interesting and speaks to the danger of genetic testing and experimentation.


Micheal Crichton is the bomb, isn't he? Have you read his Timeline? Timeline is one of the best books as far as using your imagination. It was so deep that several times I would have to go back & re-read things because I wasn't sure that I understood what was going on. I love that book.

Me, me, ME! I LOVE to read and always have a book or two within reach. Both of our children are the same way, too.

Right now I'm reading the Elm Creek Quilt Series by Jennifer Chiaverini--started the second one yesterday.

Nomad, I loved Trixie Belden--read 'em all! I read Nancy Drew n Hardy Boys, too, but Trixie's tomboyishness n spontanaeity won me over most of all!

I read such a wide variety, tis comical--nice to see so many of us do that! It ebbs n flows as to what I'm 'into' at any given time.

Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series is one I must buy so I can flip back to certain passages--that hasn't happened to me very often, finding books I MUST buy to re-read parts! I'm usually content to check out stacks n stacks from the library and buy very few to actually keep. I just adore Jamie and Claire!

I wonder if Maeve Binchy is working on another book? I love her attention to detail and the real Irish culture she shows.

~~Ending this post 'fore it becomes a novel of it's own LOL!

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I read such a wide variety, tis comical--nice to see so many of us do that! It ebbs n flows as to whatis working on another book? I love her attention to detail and the real Irish culture she shows.

~~Ending this post 'fore it becomes a novel of it's own LOL!

She just published one called whitethorn woods - i think, she churns out about 2 a year so the next one should be out in the summer.

I like Maeve Binchy, not enjoyed her last couple as much though. I have to say though being Irish, while she does portray alot of points of Irish culture some of it is a bit OTT, its strange when places I know are used in her books LOL. There are a great many Irish authors that write like her, Patricia Scanlon, Cathy Kelly, Marion Keyes, Sheila O flanagan, cecilia Ahern, to name a few

I love to read! I always have at least 3 -4 books going at the same time. One by the bed, one in the Bathroom. one by my favorite chair and one in my work bag - (you never know when we can steal away 15 minutes of reading!)

I think the reason my children are such good readers is because they saw me reading everyday! I'm quite proud of that fact that my kids are good, smart kids.

Sparks a question for me.....I know lots of people read Nancy Drew or the Hardy Boys as kids but did anyone else out there preferr the Trixie Belden Mysteries????? Now there was a girl after my own heart. I especially liked one of the first ones in the series where she sneaks into an old misers mansion.

I loved loved loved Trixie Belden mysteries. I much prefered her to Nancy Drew but I did enjoy Nancy also. I have Trixie Belden and the Happy Valley mystery on my reading shelf right now, I also have Nancy Drew The Secret Clock and a Donna Parker mystery to read at some point this winter. They are all the older versions, Nancy Drew is the 1959 copyright and the Trixie Belden and Donna Parker books are 1962 copyrights, I love the older versions, they transport right back to my teen years :).

I love Trixie Belden! My mom had 16 of the books and I read and re-read them many times in my younger days. I didn't get into Nancy Drew as much (although I like them) because my mom only had a couple. I've got to try to find those again. Won't be long until Isabel needs them. ;)

And who can forget Donna Parker or Meg? Those weren't as good as Trixie Belden but they were a lot of fun. :)

I wish my kids did read. They see me reading all the time & yet both of the girls are not readers. There's still hope for my 2 little grandboys. I've even told them that reading takes you places that you've never been, that your imagination really goes there. And that's why I had to stop reading scary books. My imagination can really turn the story into a real horror story for me. Sometimes Robin Cook, Dean Koontz and Stephen King will have me jittery for months. And I definitely can't read a scary book & see a scary movie. Phew! Talk about nightmares!

I read anything I can get my hands on. It has always been that way. At one point when I was a little girl- we ran out of books in the house I hadn't read so I would sit in the hallway with the encyclopediasand read. We love the Harry Potter books (we read them as a family even though the kids are teens) and Orson Scott Card's Ender Wiggins books (Ender's Shadow is my favorite). In general though I spend a great deal of time reading about financial matters.

I read anything I can get my hands on. It has always been that way. At one point when I was a little girl- we ran out of books in the house I hadn't read so I would sit in the hallway with the encyclopedias and read.

~I read encyclopedias too, only I sat on the stairs. I still like to read them! I visit Wikipedia almost every day for fun. I read just about everything I could as a kid. I started reading financial and relationship books before I was 10. I read War History Books when I was 9. I had to get special permission from my teacher to borrow high school books from the school library. She let me do this because she knew I was actually reading them cover to cover. I finish every book I start too, even if I hate it!~

There is seldom a day in my life in which I do not read. I love just about anything other than some of the romance novels available. I will read fiction, non fiction, self help, chick lit, thriller, suspense, horror, fantasy, historical...it does not matter. But it does seem as if I go through spells when I only want to read horror or whatever. I normally have 3 or 4 books going at a time and am addicted to magazines...
When I was younger, my mother would tell me that if she yelled that the house was on fire and I had to get out, I would answer " Wait until I finish this chapter"

My passion is books. I have loved them since I was a child. Actually I will read anything you put in front of me. I am also a news junkie so I go online and read several newspapers daily. I have so many books and some I have read over and over. I especially love anything to do with history and I also like to read true crime...I know kinda wierd, but I am ones of those people who is always wondering what makes people tick...Blessings..Kathy

I love Wikipedia but usually only look at it when I'm wanting info.

I don't read a book that I don't like. I use to do that but after doing it to too many books, I just realized that I'd rather be reading something of interest to me. So if it doesn't grab me by the first 3 chapters, then I move on. This was real hard for me in the beginning but now, I do it without looking back.

One thing that seems continuous with us avid readers is that we've been hooked since childhood. I remember trying to read billboards even before I could read!


I love reading as a family & getting my niece's input & how she feels about what's happening. My boys are too little right now for input but I'll have to work on that. ;)

I'm a Nora Roberts reader and also the Harry Potter series. However I'll read just about anything that I can get my hands on.

I started reading very early because I was the baby in a family of readers and I wanted to do what everybody else was doing. I also had an EXCELLENT choice of books available (from 3 sisters). This was a good thing because for my 3rd birthday, the town librarian gave me a library card, and responded to my mother's raised eyebrow by pointing out that I had been picking out and reading my own books for several weeks. A short time later, I got rheumatic fever, and reading was about all I COULD do, and I spent much of my childhood with various serious diseases. Luckily, I grew an immune system somewhere along the line, but I still love books! I switch genres periodically, but like pretty much any fiction or history. Get into self-help if it is something I think I need to fix, and go through hobbie books for hobbies I don't practice. I also like to read cookbooks - front to back. About the only thing I've never gotten into is sexually explicit lit - I guess I prefer my own fantasies to other peoples ;-)

I have always been a huge reader. i love historical fiction, romances, Stephen King,(love the Stand, unedited version)Nora Roberts, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Childs, and Sarah Ban Breathnach. I carry a book with me everywhere I go , just in case I have some time to read. I would rather read than watch tv.

Sheri

I just finished a few good books. One of them is called Maxed Out by the guy who made the documentary by the same name. Everyone should read this book! It's a pretty quick read but it will really open your eyes about finances in the US.

Another one is called This Year I Will, written by M.J. Ryan. It's a really motivational book, one of the best I've read.

I love to read! Some of my favorites books are 'The Pilot's Wife' (Anita Shreve), 'Remember Me' & 'The Street Where You Live' (Mary Higgins Clark),
'Babyville' (Jane Green) and many others. I can never remember favorite titles and authors when asked... I'll have to think of them and come back later

Reading...my escape from reality! I am a magazine junkie, I keep our waiting rooms at the office stocked with my leftovers, lol. I always have at least one fiction and one non-fiction book going.
fiction I like: all of the classics of course, and francine rivers, terry blackstock, janette oke, neta jackson, tolkien, I cold go on for days..lol
non-fiction i like: anything C.S. Lewis, Rob Bell, Ravi Zacharias, G.K. Chesterton, Mike Yaconelli (when I read these authors I wonder what it must feel like to be that intelligent!)

I guess I'd have to say that I am again now. :)

I used to read all of the time but once I got online [10 years ago!], my reading kind of fell by the wayside and except for my Bible - most everything I read was online.

But a few months ago, I started reading the "Left Behind" book series and that was all it took and I'm back to reading again and am loving it.

Ya know what hit me after I started reading again? It was "Wow, I've missed this!" :lol:

Love,

Jennelle

I love to read and it was also my escape as a child. I used to walk to the library every other day and come home with a stack of books. I love to read history or true crime as well as suspense thrillers.

I love love love to read. I goto the library all the time. I love JD Robb, Nora Roberts, Debbie Macomber, James Patterson and a lot of others. I goto the library all the time because it is so much cheaper to do that then buy them when the come out. I also am reading some books by Susan Wiggs and they are really good to I got 2 of her newer ones at the library.

Oh ... I love Debbie Macombers books too and am reading one right now [It's called "Between Friends" and is really good!

Love,

Jennelle

I love love love to read. I goto the library all the time. I love JD Robb, Nora Roberts, Debbie Macomber, James Patterson and a lot of others. I goto the library all the time because it is so much cheaper to do that then buy them when the come out. I also am reading some books by Susan Wiggs and they are really good to I got 2 of her newer ones at the library.

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I love to read--I've been in some type of book club ever since I was 5 (Dr Seuss book club lol) My fave authors are Stephen King, Patricia Cornwell, Jonathan Kellerman, Dean Koontz, John Grisham ......

I love to read too. I belong to a few online book-clubs and almost always have 5 or 6 books checked out from the library. I have a goal this year of 48 books. I will pretty much read anything. My least favorite to read is romance, but I have been known to pluck one off my mother's shelf when I am visiting her (she lives near the beach... what better place to read trash!?).

Thanks for all the book suggestions!

I love to read too!!! I love the Shopoholic series!!! And Fantasy Novels! I just finished a great book called Lying with Strangers, I can't think of the Author right now, but if you can find this book it is really great!

:blah: Here I go.

I love to read, too. Right now I really like Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. I like Charlaine Harris, MaryJanice Davison, the gal who wrote "The Devil Wears Prada". I enjoyed the first part of Laurell Hamilton's Vampire Hunter series but now it's just a lot of sex, not so much vampire stuff. :( That gets old and boring.

I am also a softie for Victoria Holt, Agatha Christie, and Laura Ingalls Wilder--they're old friends. I like the occasional romance or sci-fi too. I also enjoy chef's non-fiction--like Paula Deen's autobiography and Anthony Bourdain's food/travel commentaries.

I enjoy mysteries (Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, Dana Stabenow, Susan Wittig Albert, Diane Mott Davidson, Earlene Fowler, etc.); biographies; Jim Butcher's books (Dresden Files); The Harry Potter books; Tolkien; old Louis L'Amour westerns; travel books; Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels (too funny); and herb books.

I love to read! I enjoy most genres except horror and true crime. It would be great if I could read a lot more but work keeps intruding. My favorite genres are historical and contemporary romances from authors like Nora Roberts, Diana Palmer...bodice busters, as my DH calls them. Guaranteed to get the imagination into overtime! I also enjoy fantasy type science fiction like Piers Antony, Terry Brooks, Andre Norton etc. Actually, I'll read just about anything or tryto anyway! My son is the same way; we have to have something to read at hand all the time. I've read most of my DH's westerns and war novels at one time or another.

I have always enjoyed reading. It wasn't until recently though that I've been able to spend more time. I read every night before bed and sometimes for an hour or so during the day on my porch.

Right now I'm really into the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich. I'm currently reading the 5th one, High Five. :read:

I absolutely LOVE reading!! I have always been a reader, from the day I learned how. Now I get to work early so I can get some reading time in before I clock in, read at lunch, read when I get home, read on weekends...you get the picture! If only I could get paid for reading, now that would be my dream job!

Love, love, love to read!!!! Been reading since I was 4. I'll read just about anything but I'm not too crazy about science fiction. Right now I'm on a history kick----mainly the American Revolution (just finished 1776) and WWII (just read Band of Brothers). And I love Ann Rule's books, even though the one about the BTK/Green River killer I just couldn't finish----too many details, too horrific. I also like Terry Kay's fiction and I just have read The Coalwood Way by Homer Hickam, so I intend to read everything I can by him. James Herriot is another favorite---he was a veterinarian in England and his books are marvelous---funny, tender, engrossing.

And of course--- the Harry Potter series.

ME! It is my favorite thing to do - I carry a book with me literally everywhere I go and read whenever I can. My husband doesn't read at all (I mean for pleasure) so I'm hoping my son takes after me in that sense and not him. I read a ton of both fiction and non-fiction, whatever has captured my interest at the moment.

I love reading. I hate to admit it, but I think I read more when I lived within 2 miles of the library and had to drive past it everyday. Thankfully the people I work with love to read to, so we tend to pass books around alot (Leslies mom works at a library so she alway's has a good book or too laying around the store...lol

I too am an avid reader. I am usually reading two books at any given time. I love fiction, romance, history, spiritual, finance and motivational books.

I have been reading since I was very young and discovered that books can take you anywhere from another country to another planet. Reading will always be a love of mine and I have passed it on to my children.

I am obsessed with books and reading. My favorite genre is Paranormal fiction but I will read almost anything. I will say, that I am not very frugal with my books, I tend to buy them new however I keep most of them. If I don't keep them, I either give them to friends, or I donate them to the library.

I love reading. Some of my favourites are Barbara Kingsolver and Carol Shields. I also like Donna Tartt and Margaret Atwood and Anne Tyler. And I like mystery/crime novels, but I think the best ones come from Sweden and Norway. And I enjoy some Finnish writers you would not know.

My DH and our kids are also avid readers. We read every day and now during summervacation even more.

I really love to read good suspense books and good online forums like this one!

love love love to read! Currently reading 3 books. I am at the library at least 4 times a week...

Right now I have three books going.. Jacobs Ladder (which was is an award winning civil war book), I, Elizabeth (about Queen Elizabeth I), and Pillars of the Earth..all very good books! ..I also have a Sylvia Brown book sitting on my desk that I haven't started yet..I love to read! Always have read alot, and my first job was at a page in our local library!..I wish i still worked there-county job, good benefits..etc etc..

I love this thread I have a list of the books mentioned here to get on my next library trip.I love finding new authors.Has anyone read David Rosenfelt,his books are so funny,I have read all of his I wish he would hurry up and write another one

I love to read. I remember devouring Nancy Drew as a kid and I've been a mystery reader ever since. But I'll read anything in a pinch, including the cereal box.

Avid reader, bookworm, book nerd, old cookbook collector here. Did I mention I love to read?

I must have something to read at all times. In a tight spot I will resort to reading my 11 yr old son's books :)

I was a librarian for 5 years. At one point I had 60 books checked out!! Kind of embarrassing to have your employer ask you to return their new book inventory . . . .

I just finished "The Bonesetters Daughter" by Amy Tan yesterday. Get through the 1st section. It gets better.

Just go back from the library about an hour ago. 10 books. I'll return them on time. They fine me now, since I don't work there anymore!

I love to read. Drives dh nuts that I can sit there and read and watch tv at the same time and know whats going on.

Renewed my library card a couple of months ago.

A lot cheaper then buying books online.

OOH! ME ME ME!

I love to read! I've been reading since I was 3 years old, and in school, was reading at a college level by the time I was 12 (which ticked my teachers off!).

I've been asked why I can speak with knowledge about such a variety of subjects - I simply say "books". I read everything I can get my hands on. (No kidding, I've had people actually ask me that.)

I love to read about history, especially homemaking history, food history, etc. I like to learn how people lived day-to-day in eras past. I think it's fascinating stuff. I also enjoy true crime novels, Stephen King, and Patricia Cornwell.

I'll read pretty much anything about the Romanov Dynasty & Gregori Rasputin, as well as Jack the Ripper. The Manson crimes used to fascinate me - not so much anymore. I simply find the criminal mind and how it works very interesting. How someone can go from a normal childhood to an adulthood of depravity and murder. I'm also very interested in forensic pathology, and have read everything by Dr. Bass - the Forensic Pathologist who started "The Body Farm" in Tennesee.

I'm in the process of listing all of my books on Ebay right now - it's just about killing me to do it, but I realized when we moved, and I had 15 copy paper boxes full of books, that it was just too much. I know I'll eventually replace them with more books, but for right now, I need the space! There are a few I won't let go of, but I need to clear out most of them.

I can't remember if I responded to this thread or not yet! lol

Anyway, right now I'm on an Elizabeth Chadwick kick. Read the Love Knot and got hooked. It's kinda historical romance but the stories are really involved with a great deal of history woven in.

I also love motivational and self help books, read whatever the library has on anything from spiritual to money issues and all in between.

I prefer reading fictional books that are historical.. or prehistorical like Jean Auel and a few other authors I can't think of right off the bat. I would rather read then watch tv!!

Seems like we have a lot of bookworms here

Yes, I love to read. Unfortunately, what I love even more is reading and munching, a bad habit I try to restrain. Science fiction is my favorite.

I once got into (relatively mild) trouble when I was in the 3rd or 4th grade because I had to go a classmate's birthday party, something I could usually wiggle out of, and smuggled in a book and sat in a corner reading through the whole party. I did eat the cake the mother brought me -- eating and munching, my dietary downfall. On the whole, it was not judged a successful social experiment.

Bone Setter's Daughter was a really good book. All of Amy Tan's books are really good though. My favorite is still The Joy Luck Club..and the movie was spectacular!

I read a ton. Only problem is a good book can make me forgot to go to sleep.

Same here, Nodmicks! I've been known to stay up 'til the wee hours and plow through a book because I just can't stop. :rest:

I love to read too! I'm always looking out for good book review sites. I'll read anything except for science fiction. I like to read up on my hobbies too: knitting, cross stitching and sewing.

The librarian at my library always knows me by my abundant amount of books on hold. When I come to the check out desk and I only have one book (which is rare), she raises her eyebrow and says "What, only one book!!" It makes me :crackup:!

I'm an insanely avid reader....I read pretty much EVERYTHING and ANYTHING, and have a TERRIBLE magazine addiction ;)
I read my mag's for free at Chapters (bring my notebook for recipes ect.) as well MIL and DM give me their magazines they have subscriptions to when they're done. I get Reader's Digest and Practical Horsemen by gift subscription too.
Books books books....my home is full of them LOL I have rubbermaid containers under the beds full of them, and 3 LARGE bookshelves..and to those who ask me,,,yes, I have read all of them ;)
Since grad'ing from Uni I tend toward Diana Gabaldon, Kathy Reichs and Brit Chick Lit type stuff, but really, I read absolutly anything. I have a basket in one room for all the books I borrow from my reader friends, and stickers for mine that I lend out ;)

My cousin has no books or mags at her house, and I literally find it painful when I'm there for long periods on my own!! That's when the computer is handy ;)

The used book store is my friend, and I HEART Diana Gabaldon and Jean Auel books ;) Waiting for the next from each!!!

I read anything and everything. I love British History, particularly the Tudor period. I own practically everything Janet Evanovich, Robert B. Parker and Terry Pratchett ever wrote.

I'm moving soon and the single biggest set of stuff I'll be moving is books. I think I need to sell some on Ebay or something.

Don't know if I have responded here or not.

I read mostly female authors: mystery, esp forensic ; biographies, self-help, personal finance, genealogy.

Favorite authors include: Kathy Reich, Patricial Cornwell, Janet Evanovich (however, I am getting tired of them now) James Harriott, Torey Hayden, James Patterson's Murder club series, Sue Grafton., and Dr. Andrew Weil.

For my birthday, I used my money for a nice used bookcase. 5 shelves. However, that will be the last one. At one time, I owned 10 bookcases and multiple boxes full of books. I traded in as many as I could for cash and used book store credit and gave the rest away. I still trade in most of them, but have bought enough that I want to keep that I allowed myself one more bookcase.

I am an avid reader also.I was sickly as a child with asthma so I had to stay in alot.I love comical mystery books. The authors of some are
Joanne Fluke
Rita Lakin
Tamar Myers
Mary Daheim

I'm absolutley an avid reader. My husband usually makes the "get your nose out of that book, we need to go grocery shopping" comment frequently...lol. I just finished up the Stephanie Meyer Twilight Series. Amazingly good. I did 4 novels in 3 days...lol. But thats because DH is on a fishing trip all week. Basically, I read series'. Anything that has a continuation, just love it. I have to find my next one now.

Postvilly by Stephen Bloom. Very enlightening considering the ICE raid there (Postville, Iowa). Am starting "It's Not About the Bike" by Lance Armstrong.