• In total there are 43 users online :: 0 registered, 0 hidden and 43 guests (based on users active over the past 60 minutes)
    Most users ever online was 871 on Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:00 am

how often do you guys read a book?

The perfect space for valuable discussions that may not neatly fit within the other forums.
Forum rules
Do not promote books in this forum. Instead, promote your books in either Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book! or Authors: Tell us about your NON-FICTION book!.

All other Community Rules apply in this and all other forums.
dernst
Getting Comfortable
Posts: 5
Joined: Sun Mar 20, 2011 3:49 pm
13
Location: Parsippany NJ
Been thanked: 1 time
Contact:

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

I'm always reading something. Right now I'm reading two things. I've got a basket full of library books, so those get first priority. Lately I've given up on books that don't grab me in the first 50 or so pages. Life's too short to read bad books, so about half of what I start get thrown aside.
kelperkins
Getting Comfortable
Posts: 7
Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:36 pm
13
Location: Laguna Beach, CA
Been thanked: 1 time
Contact:

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

Ok, now I just finished such a great fun adventure, Shopping for Buddhas by Jeff Greenwald. One of those you don't want to end and now, how I have recovered from my dry spell. So much for that to do list!
patrickt
Atop the Piled Books
Posts: 39
Joined: Wed Nov 25, 2009 10:14 am
14
Location: Oaxaca, Mexico
Has thanked: 3 times
Been thanked: 8 times

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

I am a compulsive reader. I never leave home without a book to read.

I was sent to see a psychologist. He said he'd be a few minutes and left me sitting alone in the waiting room. I realized later the point was to see how I reacted to frustration but I didn't get frustrated. I pulled out my book, propped my feet up, and started reading. Instantly, the psychologist was in the room demanding to know who told me to bring a book.

I read every day. I tend to read in 20 minutes sessions. I read, then stop, ponder, chat with someone, look around, whatever, and then read again. I rarely read for an hour without a break.

I've never been able to read in bed so when I get in bed I go to sleep.
lady of shallot

1F - BRONZE CONTRIBUTOR
Genuinely Genius
Posts: 800
Joined: Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:22 pm
13
Location: Maine
Has thanked: 45 times
Been thanked: 174 times

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

At 76 I have been a life long reader. There has never been a period in my life when I have not read. Now I read a lot on the internet. Am not able to sleep without reading in bed. Am eclectic in my reading. One discouraging thing though is that while I have read since I was 6 or so, I am still a bad speller!
lenabro
Getting Comfortable
Posts: 12
Joined: Thu Mar 31, 2011 2:30 pm
13
Has thanked: 1 time

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

Always and all the time. Often two books at a time.

I tend to buy in bulk and then have a pile on my night stand. After reading the thread "Your Five Favourite Books" here on Booktalk, I shopped and bought 10 books. Love books.
User avatar
Esoldra
Creative Writing Student
Posts: 33
Joined: Sun Mar 27, 2011 11:54 am
13
Location: Belfast
Has thanked: 2 times
Been thanked: 4 times

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

I am always reading, I always have to have a book on the go. I was not always like that, as a child I adored reading and into my teens and then I studied literature and stopped reading for around two years after that.
boook
Getting Comfortable
Posts: 8
Joined: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:22 pm
13

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

Who has time to read? Oh wait though I sure have time to post on a board!!!! :lol:
User avatar
Aqueda_Veronica
Permanent Ink Finger
Posts: 47
Joined: Thu Jun 02, 2011 3:35 pm
13
Location: Poznań
Has thanked: 6 times
Been thanked: 13 times

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

Every single day before I go to bed. A book instead a sleeping pill or evening scotch :)
"From childhood's hour I have not been as others were
I have not seen as others saw
I could not bring my passions from a common spring
From the same source I have not taken my sorrow
I could not awake my heart to joy at the same tone
And all I loved - I loved alone"

E.A.Poe
User avatar
froglipz

1G - SILVER CONTRIBUTOR
Brilliant
Posts: 663
Joined: Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:37 pm
14
Has thanked: 234 times
Been thanked: 111 times
United States of America

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

I have two or three going now, I probably finish one thing or another a week...
~froglipz~

"I'm not insane, my mother had me tested"

Si vis pacem, para bellum: If you wish for peace, prepare for war.
TheViolin
Getting Comfortable
Posts: 7
Joined: Sun May 29, 2011 7:55 pm
13
Been thanked: 1 time

Re: how often do you guys read a book?

Unread post

I read constantly and even have a couple books going at once.... That is if I have enough time. Between schoolwork and music, I don't have time.... Well ok, that's not entirely true, but I do no feel like reading after a whole day of reading. I'm so excited that it's summer! Move over computer,TV, and mainstream pop music, it is time for some real entertainment(books and a relaxing time with classical music, ah.)!
Post Reply

Return to “Everything Else”