Anyone else a huge bookworm like me? I absolutely love to read and I am definitely a bibliophile. I have been my entire life. What do you enjoy reading?
I have one wall that is a full floor to ceiling wall to wall bookshelves I installed finally last year! I love dystopian fiction and science fiction as well as technical books and history of course. Getting more and more into Biblical dissection style books as well.
I have been reading since early childhood, I could spell out simple words with letter blocks to ask for things before I could talk, thanks to Apraxia of Speech. My father taught me the basics of phonics, and then jumped in with Lord of the Rings. I read Narnia on kindergarten, Lord of the Rings on my own in first grade, and after the school complained about my reading Stranger in a Strange Land, my father started buying Anne McCaffrey's Pern Series for me. My favorite book for many years was PC Hodgell's Godstalk, and then I found out that she wrote SEQUELS, and I love them all.
My book case has hard Sci Fi, old classics, Fantasy, Anthropology, books on religion, Atheist writers, biosciences, biochemistry, popular astronomy and physics, and a small selection of French, Spanish, German, and Arabic, as well as a couple books on American Sign Language.
I'm just an old-fashioned book geek.
I like mostly nonfiction, but I did enjoy Elizabeth Gilbert's "The Signature of All Things". My latest favorite book I recently read, however, is James Donovan's "A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn - The Last Great Battle of the American West". I like biographies as well.
I gave up on fiction after I read some of Jean M. Auel's books, now almost all I read is non fiction.
Psychological thrillers, historical fiction, horror, nonfiction...
@Bverret2012 I had a copy of Gone Girl in my library, but someone borrowed it and didn't return it. I saw the movie and it was great. Which of her books should I read first?
I remember precisely when I became a lover of books. I was probably 8 or 9 years old. My Mama bought me Swiss Family Robinson. I came out of my room maybe an hour later and pronounced that I had finished reading the book. Which, of course, was a lie. My Mama started asking me questions about the book and since I didn't read the book, I couldn't answer the questions. So off to the bedroom again. It took me a few days to finish it, but by that time I fell in love with reading. I will read pretty much anything, with the exception of westerns, but tend to prefer fiction. Even though I have a Kindle Fire, I STILL can't pass up actual, physical books. There is something about the smell of a new book.
@Shellbell $30??? I would much rather buy a hard bound book at that price. LOL
I"m reading the biography of Bob Hope. He was a cheap bastard in real. life. A great book to read is THE DEVILS MUSIC, it's the story of how the blues came to America. And another great book is the autobiography of Miles Davis. It's just like talking to him. After I get dowe with this one, I'm gonna read Drew Barrymore's autobiography.
My wife had me go with her to a , "marriage counselor" because of my reading all the time. Oh and she is now my ex-wife.
You really opened up a can of worms with this post. Prepare to be flooded by lists of books, series, and periodicals. This site has more readers than I would have believed possible. I think most of us have troubles getting to sleep without something with words in a row on it.
I'm trying to stay away from page turners like Michael Connely, Jeffry Deaver, of Clive Cussler. I have a lot of trouble sleeping and usually read myself to sleep, but it can keep me up until one or two am. So I'm cutting back and re-reading some of my own stories I wrote years back. But sometimes I think reading real paper books is becoming a lost art.
I like reading the Classics, especially Romantic Drama, Also Scientific and Historical books. Just finished reading 'Sapiens' (2015) by Yuval Noah Harari which I think everyone should read. Also half way through 'Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded' (1740) by Samuel Richardson which is said to be the first Novel by some scolars (depending on how you define a Novel)
I I come from a family of "readers", and have loved reading from a young age. I read every night, and my genres change depending on my mood. I just finished "Educated", a memoir I heard about on NPR. Great read that made me want to crawl out of my skin at times. Next in line? "Grunt" by Mary Roach, the same woman who wrote "Stiff", "Bonk", and others.
I am a huge bookworm....but no interest in the Bible....read it front to back about 20 yrs ago and that was when I knew for sure I was an agnostic/athiest. I enjoy reading mostly fiction.....I like debut novels as these authors have not yet settled into a groove where so many of their book are alike. Mysteries are my favorite but will read history...no romance, please.....been there...done that! ha I am 78 yrs old an enjoying the freedome read as much, or as little, as I want. Would love to hear from other bookworms.
Just finished Origin by Dan Brown thriller, can't turn pages fast enough I like the English novels: Eliz. George and novels in the early English era. (Sansung?) Reading "K is for Killer" by Sue grafton. Her novels just fun to read. Like Rollins novels for the info,
I also read NF if interested in topic. There was a good book about the gal codebreakers in WWII
I read 2 - 3 books per week. Don't have TV, listen to classics in Calm Radio
Hope you have good reading!.
I like books on really bad people like Jeffrey Dahmer etc. my fave is a book by Henry lesser about a man called Carl Panzram a journal of murder. when I read it I found myself quite admiring carl considering how he was treated.