The Reading Room

I love to read! I'm currently on Stephen King's Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla... I'm almost halfway through. I've only got two more books in that series... I don't wanna see it end! I get 80 minutes a day to read while commuting to Boston on the train, so I'll be finished with the series soon enough.

Obviously I'm a King fan (I even have a picture of me standing in front of his house) but I also like Steve Alten, Michael Crichton, Brian Jacques, and tied for first place with Stephen King is any of Uncle John's Bathroom Readers... I dare you to pick one of those up and not read it for at least an hour at a time.

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Originally Posted by Eddie_Z

My word does anybody read any non-fiction!!??

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I'll have to introduce you to my husband who also reads non-fiction. He reads mostly historical, political and military history. Usually has 3 books going at once too!

I read lots of non-fiction as well. I have mostly books on fauna and flora... and various other sciences. Some history books too.

I have several favorite authors. I love forensic & medical thrillers, so I enjoy Jonathan Kellerman, his wife, Faye Kellerman, Harlan Coben, Robin Cook, John Grisham and Dennis Lahane (Mystic River). I know there are many others, but I can't remember them right now! LOL


I'm also enjoying Jodi Picoult, and reading her book Mercy right now (by the way, Jo, how did you like My Sister's Keeper?)

I'll be reading Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult next and have four of her other books on reserve at the library, along with Nicholas Sparks' At First Sight, Jame's Patterson's Lifeguard: A Novel, Judith Janice's Long Time Gone, Anne River Siddon's Sweetwater Creek: A Novel, and James Frey's A Million Little Pieces (an Oprah Book Club Book). And I've just put Dan Brown's Digital Fortress on hold.

I also love to listen to audio books. The BEST one ever is The Promise by Donna Boyd. It's about Werewolves, and it's SOOOO awesome! She has some others about werewolves and you just can't put it down or want your ride to end (if you're listening or reading, either way is compelling). It's not horror at all, and really makes you think.

I also enjoy Virginia Lanier's Bloodhound series (Ten Little Bloodhounds, etc).

There's many, many more, but that's a start! LOL

oh i have this really annoying habit (to my friends and family ) of reading like 3-4 books at the same time so right now im in the middle of


*Foundation (im gonna finish the whole series) by Isaac Asimov

*Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien

* i just finished Eragon and the sequel Eldest by Christopher Poalini

(anyone here read Wheel of Time?)

EDIT ps i also read the whole dragonriders of pern series (someone earlier mentioned it)

and Koontz is an awsome author my favorite is Sieze the Night (BTW does that book have a prequel?)

i read a whole bunch of tom clancy

basicly if it has words and pages i'll read it !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hmmm recent nonfiction . .

"An Anthropologist On Mars"
"The Serprent and the Rainbow"

(ACK! unrelated - I am eating a red pear right now and it kind of tastes like bacon - bring that stroke on!)

Thanks to Robin for getting me hooked on Jodi Picoult (and she came to our town and I missed meeting her!!!! ARRRRRRRRRRRGH). I'm with Wendy on Auel and Gabaldon (her newest one is out....YAAAAAAAAYYYYYY!!!).

Basically I'll read the backside of a shampoo bottle if I have to LOL. I come from a family of natural speed readers so as my husband says I "eat books". My usual trips to the library might include books on true crimes, forensic pathalogy, a good sleazy romance or two, medical mysteries (fiction or non-fiction), historical fiction, non-fiction stories of vets or wildlife rehabbers, etc. I figure the librarian must think I'm pyschotic LOL.

Mike only gets nervous when I read books like "Bothersome Bodies". Very interesting true crime stories about how people dispose of those they have...ummm...disposed of :dead:


~~Jo~~

A love of reading is the best inheritance you can ever give your child.

HAHAHA

Too funny. "American Psyco" was an ok movie - but the book was brilliant and disturbing on sooooo many levels.

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Basically I'll read the backside of a shampoo bottle if I have to LOL.

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I was brought up the same way - back of cereal boxes at breakfast etc. I worry for my kids that reading is so downplayed these days - that the imagination is less stimulated - all the entertainment leaves no room for exercising it - heartily agree with your closing statement.

We share that worry too as quiet reading time is so under-valued in today's instant society. Here's a couple of tricks I've used to get the 4 kid's loving books at an early age (and so far it's sticking)....

Library books are like treasures. They go up high. It's a treat to get your library book down and read and then it goes back up high. Kids LOVE stuff they can't have easily LOL.

Reading with mom or dad at bedtime is a special time. Nice alone time with a parent in a busy house with siblings. As the older ones started reading to themselves, it was a deal to have their reading time if they got their butts to bed at a decent hour.

Best thing though, bar none, is let your kids see you love reading and enjoy family trips to the library or the bookstore. There's nothing that encourages a kid to read more than seeing their parent(s) enjoying that simple pleasure. Though around our house if mom gets a new book, it's more like "okay who is making dinner cuz mom is in la-la land with her book tonight" LOL


~~Jo~~

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Originally Posted by frankykeno

Though around our house if mom gets a new book, it's more like "okay who is making dinner cuz mom is in la-la land with her book tonight" LOL

~~Jo~~

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Okay I hate to admitt it but Cody does the same thing. If it's time for lunch, Cody will be like "Mom, can you make me a sandwich? Oh never mind you're reading."

I know that he's a great kid when he brings me one too, even if it is baloni & ketchup. LOL