Published on 12, July, 2020
What are you reading, what sort of books do you love and why?
I tend to read non fiction during the day and fiction at night. I've just finished a brilliant book called How the World Made the West, by Josephine Quinn, which shows how interconnected the world was and always has been and how its only been in the last couple of hundred years that Greek and Roman have come to dominate our cultural history. MNow I'm reading a book on The Pirates Code, about the actual laws of the sea and how pirates opperated.
Fir fiction I mostly read crime novels, not true crime though, I like my crime and detectives fictional. I think crime fiction appeals to me as the good guys usually win and I can understand the emotional context of the characters which I find hard in more mainstream fiction.
What is your favourite non fiction book? I like reading lots of different genres of books but I think non fiction is one of my favourites to read.
I love love Love reading! Books are my favourite. I own many, many books, my library is huge. I first started reading when I was a child and I still read so many books now. My collection is ever growing.
I'm currently reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak which I have read several times before. I find it an enticing read, sad, amazing and brilliant all at the same time.
I tend to read non fiction as I struggles with many different characters and wondering who they are. I am reading a book on the rise and fall of council housing and one on British Rail. I am a keen newspaper reader as well. I have four bookshelves full of books and wish to buy more. I am lucky as I live near a great bookshop that attracts readers from all over the country so I can go and indulge myself when I have spare cash.
TheCatWoman said:What are you reading, what sort of books do you love and why?
I'm a big reader of fantasy and sci-fi and have been into this since childhood.
The why - I grew up in a small town in Scotland (in the 70s & 80s) where there was little access to anything interesting so these books gave me an escape to the much more interesting worlds of imagination.
From the 90s to a few years ago I was very much into the internet and TV/films so the books ended up being given away but with retirement in my 50s a few years ago I rediscovered the joys of reading again (using a Kindle is not remotely like holding a book to me) so I started buying books from Facebook Marketplace, eBay and charity shops / 2nd hand bookshops and have built up an inexpensive collection of about 500 books now.
I keep tracking down books I once read or wanted to read as an occasional hobby but the main thing is enjoying them.
At the moment I'm reading the Dwarves quintet from Markus Heitz then have the Riverworld series from Philip Jose Farmer to follow - after that I'll go for something different (I have the EE Doc Smith Lensman series just arrived so that is quite a change).
It helps to have lots of free time to read.
I read mostly middle-grade fantasy. People write the BEST books for middle schoolers. My favorite book of all time is Good Different by Meg Eden Kuyatt. It's very easy and it's a novel in verse, but it's the best book in existence. I also really like the Wings of Fire series.
TheCatWoman said:I tend to read non fiction during the day and fiction at night
I used to have the Amstrad computer manual as bedtime reading as a child. I love textbooks almost every Christmas as a teenager I would ask for textbooks. until I started pestering my parents for a computer.
I read lots of non-fiction, mostly related to my job, but also biographies, finance and science. I’m currently reading Secrets of the Autistic Millionaire, which was written by a retired Microsoft veteran who now has an entertaining YouTube channel which is mostly about his time in the early days of Microsoft but also occasionally about autism.
I also read rather a lot of science fiction, always have. I’m currently attempting to read one of the first science fiction collections ever written - the King in Yellow. It is trippy!