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Ahh, to be surrounded by lovely books and others who read them! Pure bliss!
I, too, have always been suspicious of people who don't, or won't, read. Even as a young child, I thought it odd my Mother made the comment she didn't want books in her living room, and proceeded to fill the built-in shelves on either side of the fireplace with largely worthless bric-a-brac that I truly resented having to clean and dust. The injustice! And several years later, when she remodeled the formal living room, and had my father rip those bookcases o-u-t, I couldn't believe it. I kept asking him if there wasn't some way to work them into my bedroom, but they ended up in the detached garage, out back, to store paint and household items.
Oh, but to get back to the poll: I am over 40, and read voraciously -- any and everything. I can head out to the grocery store, and get side-tracked at a book store, come home with something for me and my husband to read, and still need to go get milk.
In all fairness to the under 39 age group, as much as I have always loved to read, I didn't get to read as much when I was working, and after my child was born, I was reading to her. That was fun, but still, didn't compare to the reading I get to do now that I am retired.
If I could just make a little extra money doing it. . .
I just came across this in a book I'm reading...I'v heard so many people say reading and books will disappear because of internet and video games..here is a perspective on books and reading from awhile back..
The quantity of books
There is so much writing of books,
Heaps of them are written,
Nobody will write books any more
So nobody will buy them.
Friedrich Von Logau 1638
German poet
from the Thirty Year War\by Herbert Langer
I am 23 and have a library of over 500 books, i love to read always have its like a thirst for knowledge, if i am not readin i get really irritated...i like to read night when i am in bed...my favorite author is vince flynn.
turning 50 on friday and love to read! our library has an automatic reserve list, so you can pick your favorite authors and automatically get their new releases. it is great. I recently canceled my newspaper subscriptions and read the news online and spend much more time reading books. I recently started reading books by Steve Berry. he uses some historical fact and spins a mystery/adventure about it. some fact, some fiction.
books are great!
I'm 30 and have been an avid reader all my life. I have a book on me pretty much at all times. I read at stop lights (yeah I'm the one you're honking at) lol!!! Just the past Sunday I started a book at approximately 7pm and it was so good I couldn't put it down. I didn't go to sleep until 2am when I finished the book. I regretted it at work in the morning but while I was reading it was so worth it! lol
I'd love to think the survey was wrong, but when you take into account the whole of society it may well be right. Bear in mind the people posting on here are people who a) can read and must like to to some extent and b) have decided to look at the Books forum . I don't know many people who don't read on a regular basis, but then I wouldn't want to!
Give me a book and I'll show you a quiet corner (store).
I'm over the oldest age listed, but always have a book with me. I grew up in a household of voracious readers and have not put a book down since I was in diapers (which I will be again some day, no doubt.)
I hide books in my car and feign "necessary" trips to the grocery store just so I can sit in my car with the sun ripping down through my sunroof while I enjoy 15 or 20 minutes of undisturbed reading! Ahhh, joy.
I usually have at least two books on the go, but have had as many as 4 of 5 at a time. I suppose it is similar to those who speak more than one language. They all just seem to stay compartmentalized. So far I haven't mixed up the character of one book with the theme of a second or third. There is still time!
I read voraciously as a kid. I am 50 and the joy of reading versus video games is lost on me. I read sci-fi fantasy and like multi book series. I buy my books and keep them so that I can go back and read them at some other time. I just finished reading a series by Terry Brooks and am going to tackle Fred Saberhagen next.
One series I have read for most of 20 years was written by Robert Jordan - most readers know it as The Wheel of Time. He had written 11 books and dies while before the last could be finished. There are websites aplenty that discuss this.
A series that disappointed me was written by Barry Sandler, the same guy that did the tune "The Green Berets" in the 1960s. The series was "Casca, the Eternal Mercenary". He wrote about 20 of them - pocket novels - and died before concluding. Some other writer has picked it up now. I quit after the 12 novel so I doubt I will ever read any of his work.
This stupid computer nor the TV hold a candle to reading or playing the guitar though they are entertaining at times. I can get lost in a book or the guitar for hours at a time as a good author can steal me from the world and I write my own music, something that has no time consraints.
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. I don't know many people who don't read on a regular basis, but then I wouldn't want to!
Give me a book and I'll show you a quiet corner (store).
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