Do You Read Books Regularly or Occasionally?

All three of our children had colic, Bill, and I walked and swayed back and forth with them a long time, and got so used to swaying, I would do it, even when I didn't have one of the babies with me. After awhile we started driving around with the little ones at night, and that worked and put them to sleep.

 

Over the last few months I've been working at improving my reading habits and I've actually managed to finish reading a few books. I'm still spending far too much time at the computer though, but hopefully that will change.

 

Old age has seriously affected my reading. Eyesight, concentration and interruptions. Before all that, I read constantly. Had a huge collection of books and technical magazines.

 

I would like to read more but I have trouble staying awake when I start reading. A cup of coffee by my sides helps for a while.

 

I really have never been a book reader although there are books that I had read and they are mostly the romantic pocketbook books. It was a craze when I was in college and you seem cool if you have a pocketbook like that. But when I left school, there was a paradigm shift in my reading habits. I was buying the Readers Digest and reading the newspaper is my daily habit because most of my colleagues were doing that, not to mention that our office have a subscription to 3 newspapers.

Back to the books, most of the books in our house are mostly about personal improvement. That's my trip lately. And I also have a book about Effective Writing (in English).

 

I have a list - not a physical one, but somewhere in the crazed labyrinth of my mind - of the books that I should have read by now. Almost all of them are 19th-century classics. There are, however, some things that you know you will never achieve. Anthony Trollope, for example, wrote more than seventy novels and I know I will never read all of them. Charles Dickens, on the other hand, wrote sixteen, of which I have read exactly half, so I have a chance, especially as I am reading Our Mutual Friend at the moment.

 

I have a hard time focusing but I do love to read every once in a while. It's hard for me to find a book that I actually really enjoy, the last one being a book series called Wildwood. Which was probably a few years ago I had read it. When I was younger it was so much easier for me to read but now stress and not being able to focus really ruins everything and I can't seem to read too much as I would like to. Maybe one day...

 

I only read book occasionally since a couple of years ago because of the many things I have been struggling with, and whenever I have some spare time to relax and read, I hear the streets calling out my name, and prefer to go walking out there going to nowhere, just wandering and enjoying the outdoors.

Even though, I miss to read on a more frequently basis and this is probably the main resolution to include in my upcoming new year's list.

 

I have cold. Five or six years ago I had a plastic device i was to blow and draw on to keep a bubble or a bead in the center of it. Theres a name for this device but I've forgotten what it is.I couldn't get it to work one day so I drove to a music store and bought a harmonica. Since that time, I have blown on that harmonica at least an hour every day and sometime three or fours hours. I finally learned to play it and now have all the major keys and can play most anything I want. Red River Valley is the first song I learned to play because I walked my daughter many miles because she had colic, and I sang that song to her. In my opinion the harmonica is very good for people who have breathing problems. If I have told this before some where on this site I have forgotten and apologize.

I have begun again to read every day.

 

I love reading, every night in bed I read,
Here are some titles of a few books if anyone is interested,
Water from heaven by Anne Schreiber Thomas
Long way from home by Jeanne Whitmee
Four is an odd number by Sandy Griffiths
(Please be aware bad language is used in this book)
Wrong child by Patricia Kay.

 

I have read so many books, i can not name them all. I am into mystery the most. Grew up on Erle Stanley Gardner.
James Patterson, Sidney Sheldon, Janet Evanough, Scottoline, to name a few of the writers.

 

Very rarely. I used to be able to 'time warp' with a book. I'd start reading to kill a half-hour, then not come up for air til like 4 hours later. Now I start to yawn and get restless after like ten minutes. Strange enough, I can still enjoy reading stuff on the computer screen without any problem, and I can occasionally time warp when researching something on the internet....my internet safaris usually last six hours.

 

I can't believe I've never posted on this thread being the avid reader that I am....

I like nothing more than the smell of a hardback book.. I get butterflies in my stomach when I get a new ( or used) book.. but new to me... Just this morning I had a new book delivered, it's an enormous hardback, almost 700 pages ... the diaries of one of our most well known politicians.

I only read in bed now because I'd fall asleep if I read anything more than the internet during the day ..but I can't wait for bedtime, to get stuck into this . I have a kindle, and an Ipad... but I don't enjoy reading the kindle tbh, and only use it to take on holiday or to appointments where I expect to have to sit for a while in the waiting room...

I used to read fiction many years ago.... but I haven't for a long time. I much prefer non-fiction

 

I read all the time, especially in the darkness of winter. I have 3 books going at the moment. I enjoy both books and kindle, but I don't like reading a lot on a computer screen.