Anyone else love books?

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I love to read mostly mysteries. The bloodier the better. I have discovered ebooks, it so much easier than remembering to carry my book with me. You just download onto a PDA. I used to panic if I felt I didn't have enough books to get thru a plane trip or beach vacation.
 

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I love, love, love to read!! I will usally have several books going at one time. This is do to the fact that everyone in my family reads to each other!! We all really enjoy it. For example, I am reading "Team of Rivals" with my dad and sister, "The Botany of Desire" with my brother, "Lion in the Valley" with my mother and my dad and I are sharing "Nicolas Nickleby". Oh, and I am reading "Pickwick Papers" to myself.

As far as non-fiction goes I am interested mostly in the sciences and history and for fiction I like sci/fantasy, mystery and victorian literature.
When I lived closer, my sister and I would take a day and visit all the best used bookstores in the area.
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Another book lover here. actually a reading lover. I will read cereal boxes, magazines, even read trash but i stop at gossip junk.

I remember playing with books as objects long before I could read. I loved their leather bindings and the feel of the paper.The first book I ever bought at a school book fair was Robin Hood. and I went crazy when my neighbor across the street bequeathed me an entire set of Nancy Drew books.

I just finished something very light and funny: Skinny Dip by Carl Hiassen and next I will read some short stories by Ellen Gilchrist. Then because i am new to Portland, I will read a bio of Merriweather Lewis and something about the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
 

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Related but sort of off topic... did any of you get punished when you were kids by having your reading privledges taken away?? My parents found that was very effective with me. They said I got so desperate I'd start reading cereal boxes and billboards!
 

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Originally Posted by Kaleetha

Related but sort of off topic... did any of you get punished when you were kids by having your reading privledges taken away?? My parents found that was very effective with me. They said I got so desperate I'd start reading cereal boxes and billboards!
It's never happened to me, but my cousin has told me about how her friend loves reading so much that his mom used to "ground" him from reading..


Anyways.. I love reading. I'm pretty much the only one I know of who reads a lot..
 

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One of my earliest memories is of being caught by my mother reading by torchlight under the blankets, after the 'lights out' time! I am a book junkie, cannot get enough and usually have 5-6 on the go at any time. I read a mix, novels, history, biography, politics, memoirs etc. Right now one of the books I am reading is 'Animals in Translation', by Temple Grandin who is autistic, and believes that has given her special insight into animal communication. One of the worst things about living out here has been keeping my library of several thousand books in store in England. I can't wait to get them all out again and then it will be a bookfest that will last several months!
 

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I love books, I love the weight of them in my hands, the smoothness of the pages, the intimacy between me and the words. I can speed up and slow down, re-read passages, imagine the characters (which is I why I rarely see a movie made from a book I've read; I'm usually disappointed).

Originally Posted by mauld

While not sure I'd want to join a reading circle, I do love books and one of my greatest fears is being on a plane or long trip and 'finishing' a book and NOT HAVING ANOTHER!
When we went on my first trans-Atlantic flight to England, I took 5 books along expecting them to last the flights to and from. Well, I can't sleep when I'm traveling so I ended up reading all 5 books on the way over. Had to get more for the trip back.
 

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i love books. adore John Le Carre and spy novels in general..also biographies-reading "The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde" right now and it's absolutely fascinating..i'm up to the point where he sued the Marquis of Queensberry for libel (nevermind that what the Marquis said was essentially true-that little fact didn't deter Oscar :p ). It's quite interesting. Also have a book of the complete works of Yeats which i flip through when i can't sleep.
 

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I am a complete nutty bookworm. I would give up tv, movies, and music for the written word, hands down no contest.
 

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To say I love books would be an understatement. I have a massive collection of books, Christian novels, Sci Fi, Psychology books, I have the entire collection minus the "Sleeping Beauty" series of Anne Rice's books.

I'm the booky worm type. What can I say.
 

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I love to read also. Mostly scifi and fantasy books with Anne McCaffrey, Andre Norton and Alan Dean Foster as the main Authors. I have alot of books stored from one end of the house to the other. Alot of the books are also doubled up on the shelves just to have enough room.

My Mom still talks about finding me reading under the covers with a flashlight also. She even says that is how I managed to stay out of trouble
a good bit of the time cause I was always in a corner somewhere reading a book.

I even told someone that reading was as essential to me as eating would be. More so to me sometimes. Cause with a good book I seem to forget about eating sometimes.
 

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Boy, can I identify! I remember being told I would "ruin my eyes" if I read under the covers with a flashlight. I generally read many books at a time, I used to love Stephen King - I haven't read anything of his since the Green Mile. I think his best stories are The Body (which they made into the movie Stand By Me) and...shoot, I can't remember the name. It was about a princess, prince who rescued her, something like that. He's a really good storyteller.

I just discovered a new author...Kathy Reichs, who is a forensic anthropologist, and her main character is, also. I also like to read about medical detectives, the influenza epidemic of 1917, and of course The Cat Who books.

I even read during the rests in my orchestra rehearsals! LOL.
 

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I could start a local lending library!!!!!
One of the local Goodwill stores has an awesome book section. Plus there are local chapters of AAUW all over the US and I think they all have book sales. I buy lots from them every October. My sis & I are big readers and swap lots of books.
Don't even get me started on magazines................
 

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I really enjoy reading and must read every night in bed before I go to sleep, I find it so relaxing. I also enjoy taking a book to the park to read sometimes. I'm not a real fast reader though, it takes me sometime to finish most things. I love horror/scary books, biographies, self-help books and all different stuff! I really don't have a favorite author I just read from anyone that sounds interesting at the time, or what I'm in the mood for at the moment.
 

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I can devour two books a week! Right now I'm reading Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - I forget who it's by but I highly recommend it!
 

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I love books, I have quite a large collection. I like to buy them new though and add them to my collection like that, Its a weird thing I don't like used books for some reason...I enjoy mysteries and thriller type books mostly. I haven't had too much time to read lately though, but am trying to get back into it.
 

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Books books books! I love to read, always have. When I was growing up, my mom would take me to the library once a week during the summer. Then when we came home she would have to stop me from reading every single book I took out in one sitting. She loves to tell people that she had to make me stop reading and send me outside to play.
 

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Originally Posted by mauld

While not sure I'd want to join a reading circle, I do love books and one of my greatest fears is being on a plane or long trip and 'finishing' a book and NOT HAVING ANOTHER!
When I took my plane ride out to Portland a few weeks back I took my one trashy romance I'd been reading and brought another... because i knew I'd finish the first one before the plane touched down in Portland. Sure enough, even with watching the in-flight movie [Hookwinked... too funny], I still finished the first book. And by the time i got home, between the planes and the train home from O'Hare, I had less than one chapter left in the second book.

As for genres, I read romances, and others, occasionally. I much prefer sci-fi and fantasy. That's what I grew up on. My parents have about 3000 books, 1/3 of them sci-fi and fantasy. I have roughly 800-1000 books [only the ones I have here are catalogued... I have about 10-12 more boxes sitting at my parent's house].

Yes, I have a cataloguing system. I use a shareware program called Readerware. Awesome program for a decent price. I also have everything sorted on my shelves by fiction/nonfiction, with the non-fic sorted by subject... then within each section, they're alphabetized. No Dewey Decimal System here... yet. When I hit 1000 in my personal collection... I may have to consider it.


I love books so much, I have been living in a neighborhood of Chicago called Printer's Row, where they used to print and bind books [the first printing of Wizard of Oz was typeset and then bound here].

Also, I love them so much, I am seriously considering going for my MLS [Masters in LIbrary Science], instead of another route for my MA degree.

I was always one of those kids who couldn't figure out why others' in my class couldn't read out loud as well as I could. I was also reading adult-level sci-fi and fantasy by 5th grade.

So, do I love books? Oh, heck yeah. And if anyone wants to label me OCD over books, I'll gladly take that. I picked up over 40 books [mostly paperbacks] at the book fair a week ago. I'm such a book fiend.

And proud of it.


Amanda
 
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