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I just spend hours yesterday unpacking books and shelving them into my library shelves. I was amazed at finding several books I had not yet read. My reading tastes are eclectic, but love it when the occasional book moves right along. Not into self-help books at all though.
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on May 12, 2016 at 7:08 PM
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There is not enough time to spend reading a boring book
just because you started it. But I also almost always put myself to sleep at night with reading.
posted by
Ciel
on May 12, 2016 at 2:46 PM
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TAPS
Even thinking about the material your sisters read makes me yawn, LOL...I'm not much 'into' novels either, I confess, although there are some that I read repeatedly, discovering new things each time. (There's one I read each June, though not in one day, LOL.) But for the most part it's Soc. Sci., Hist. of course (the serious stuff that often requires a bit of background to understand) and Phil. (ditto), as well as excursions into certain areas of Phys., LOL...In the most general sense, I too would describe my tastes as eclectic...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 12, 2016 at 9:28 AM
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I read something everyday and I must say that it is a joy to share a book with Wiley...both read it and talk about it.
He loves to read books written by different religious people from different religions and I am just not interested. So sometimes we don't share a book but to lie in bed awaiting sleep and just read together is so nice.
posted by
Kabu
on May 12, 2016 at 8:19 AM
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Iam like you I fall asleep while reading so I give up. My daughter is a libraian and she reads with one of those tablets .
posted by
Lanetay
on May 12, 2016 at 7:52 AM
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The only people who recommend books to me, and I to them, are my mother and sister. We do have the same tastes that overlap. Mom is more inclined to read romance novels, which she does not recommend to my sister and I.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 12, 2016 at 5:29 AM
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Before I turned 75 I read one or two books a week: popular novels,
certain favorite authors (mostly upstarts and malcontents, I suppose). For a while I was hooked on self-help and magical diets. These days, a story or character has to really grab me. I like narratives on history, scientific breakthroughs, how-to, memoirs. Like you, I have stacks of 'em waiting to be taken back to the library's used bookstore...
posted by
Pat_B
on May 12, 2016 at 4:29 AM
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Well Taps I read countless books on Kindle , I admit I skim over anything that is sleep inducing or pages where I feel the author is just filling in pages to keep the
story floating. Yes I have boxes of unread stuff, perhaps one can catch sleep from books.
Or blogs, are you sitting comfortably now close your eyes zzzzzzz;
posted by
C_C_T
on May 12, 2016 at 1:10 AM
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