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.
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.