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hi
i was kind of made to read by my grandma when i was a kid, if i said "im bored" she would say "get a book out and read", the first one i ever read from start to finish i think it was called a little princess, i bought a copy from ebay last year and it is in my bookcase somewhere for my girls to read.
and that was the first book that set me off, now reading is one of my favorite hobbies.
my favorite type of books are true life stories such as about a boy and the rest of dave pelzers, at the moment i am reading beautiful child by torey hayden.
i also love to read autobiographies of my fave celebs and such. such as kerry katone, gerri halliwell, elvis and princess diana.
any book that tugs at the heart strings is a book for me, when i was younger i read a lot of mills and boon and the sort but not so much these days, i often read fiction books if they catch my eye in a shop i will read them such as my best friends girl (i think it was called)
anyway thats my 2 pence worth, whats your type of book to read?
Hi rach!
I loved the dave pelzer books although they made me cry buckets :cry:
I got out of the habit of reading when i had an nfh could never concentrate and used to read the same line over and over must get into the habit again though ive got two books sitting here that i keep meaning to read betrayed by lindsey harris and bag of bones by stephen king :)
I used to love fiction but the last couple of years I only read non fiction or biographies too :) Oddly enough my taste changed because of our NFH experience :huh:
Like er, I stopped reading much when we had NFH as I couldn't concentrate either :(
Bonkers Mad!!!
13-01-08, 02:30 PM
i can't read anything like the dave pelzer stuff :no: i read for pleasure and i find nothing pleasing in those books.
i used to read to take my mind off my NFH, i'm the opposite to you as i become completely absorbed regardless of what's going on around me. comes of being a mum i suppose.
ER, Bag of Bones is a good read :yes:
i also become absorbed in the book and forget whats going on around me, lol, my OH craig cant understand it (he doesnt read) he cant understand how someone can sit and get into a book the way i do
rachel6566
13-01-08, 03:00 PM
i lost the art of reading and enjoying then last year picked up a torey hayden book and have read several since ,just cant put them down but yes the concentration is affected because you are not absorbed fully in the book you are listening for the unwanted noise.ats the same for me if anything good is on tv i look forward to it but cant relax enough to really enjoy this is the legacy my nfh left me.
Does anyone like Bill Brysons books?
My favourite one of his is Notes From A Small Island :D I read this years ago, but might re read again now :lol: Bill Bryson is an American and this book tells his story of how he arrived in the UK in the 70's, travelled across the country, and what he really thinks of us Brits :lol: It is a very funny book -
About The Book
"Suddenly, in the space of a moment, I realized what it was that I loved about Britain--which is to say, all of it. Every last bit of it, good and bad--old churches, country lanes, people saying 'Mustn't grumble' and 'I'm terribly sorry but,' people apologizing to me when I conk them with a careless elbow, milk in bottles, beans on toast, haymaking in June, seaside piers, Ordinance Survey maps, tea and crumpets, summer showers and foggy winter evenings--every bit of it."
After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such bestsellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland--and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.
But before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire, Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of modern-day Britain, and to analyze what he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite, zebra crossings, and place names like Farleigh Wallop, Titsey, and Shellow Bowells.
With characteristic wit and irreverence, Bill Bryson presents the ludicrous and the endearing in equal measure. The result is a hilarious social commentary that conveys the true glory of Britain.
Praise
“Bill Bryson is a funny writer…doubled over belly shakes and seltzer through the nose funny.”
–Globe and Mail
“The year’s best travel book…funny and witty and truthful.”
–Toronto Sun
“The funniest book I read this year – winded by its humor, tears on the cheeks.”
–Ottawa Citizen
“Bryson is first and foremost a storyteller – and a supremely comic and original one at that.”
–Winnipeg Free Press
Bonkers Mad!!!
13-01-08, 04:45 PM
sounds good, i'll keep an eye out for that one :yes: :thumbs:
Like the sound of that one sp :)
ER, Bag of Bones is a good read :yes:
Thanks bm i will make an effort to read it this week :)
I like to switch genres each time i read, so one historical romance, then a biography, then a work related book, then back to fiction, romantic or not :)
cant read two books too similar after each other or I get confused :D :D
Bonkers Mad!!!
13-01-08, 11:09 PM
i'm the opposite Beth, i have to stick with a genre till i've run out of books to read :lol: i usually have to leave a week or so between genres :yes:
Me too, my brain doesn't transfer between genres very easily :lol:
:lol: if I read a love story and then pick up another one straight away I cant work out which character I have read about in which book :D sometimes I am thinking so what happened to sweet Susan who fell in love with the handsome army captain....oh no, wrong book :D
So I read a love story then a story of misery and how people are true surviours :rolleyes: etc then I most def dont get them muddled up :lol:
but as with everything its horses for courses :yes:
:lol:
Well, thanks to rach starting this thread I have finally managed to find Notes From A Small Island and have already started reading it again - I normally can only ever read a book once so it must be good! :lol:
The only other book I have read twice was Jamaica Inn and that was years ago :rolleyes:
Bonkers Mad!!!
14-01-08, 02:30 AM
if i really enjoy a book i'll read it countless times. i have a few sets of books that i read at least once a year. i'm a bit of a speed reader and always find something i missed :lol:. one set in particular, Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince and Dragon Token trilogies, i probably read twice a year and now i notice typo's,theres nothing else for me to find :lol:, i cry in anticipation of the sad bits now :lol:. i have to read Stephen Kings Dark Tower series (7 books) once a year, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and Mayfair Witches trilogy and Jean M Auel's Earths children series once a year too :yes:
sad little person that i am i miss the characters if i dont get a fix.
I love books, I tend to read books about Ancient Egypt which I love, then when I am at work during my lunch hour I love fictional ones, I am reading at the moment about the Morland Dynisty by Cythia Harrod Eagles, there are so far 31 books in the series and she writing about one family from the middle ages up and until WW11. I also read what I call my odd books, e.g. Graham Hancock and stuff like that and books about mystries e.g. the Lost Ark of the Covernent think they are sometimes classed as new age books but not really sure, Hubby calls them my odd books, so the name sticks and I normally read them when in bed a night. I love Helliconia written by Brian Aldiss, I did read a very good book, fictional, about leporsey, I know it does not sound nice but it was really brillent. By the way, if you have any old books that you do not want any more the Heart Foundation Charity Shop will take them, they are trying (in my area) that you take in books you have read, and then hopefully you purchase from them something that you want to read, once you have read it you take it back in and they can re-sell it.
the book stall on our local market used to do that, must leave the label on though, once you read it you took it back and then got a small discount off the next book you bought there :)
that reminds me we were going to set up a book swap club at work ;) must get on to that :D