moik

That's a photo of me with an actual book! Like everybody else here on Shelfari I like to read and I really like lists. My favorite list of books is 99 Novels by Anthony Burgess. I think I've read 76/99 so far. I am the only person here, evidently, that hasn't ever read a Harry Potter novel or To Kill a Mockingbird. I have read... more »

That's a photo of me with an actual book! Like everybody else here on Shelfari I like to read and I really like lists. My favorite list of books is 99 Novels by Anthony Burgess. I think I've read 76/99 so far. I am the only person here, evidently, that hasn't ever read a Harry Potter novel or To Kill a Mockingbird. I have read The DaVinci Code but I won't admit to it!

I am married, forty-nine years old, born and raised in Chicago (Southwest Side Irish Catholic) and for the past twenty-one years I have been a podiatrist in Klamath Falls, Oregon. I mention this because I think a person's age, background, gender, and ethnicity influences what they read. (By the way I now attend Catholic church anytime a catholic friend dies or gets married - ha ha!)

I have posted a thousand books here in less than a month but I am not a speed reader - I read pretty slowly as a matter of fact. If my wife and I start books at the same time she finishes in half the time. I practically move my lips while reading (not really). But if a person reads one book a week that adds up over forty years. Plus from about 1984 through 1994, by choice, I didn't have a television so we read a ton of books back then - and also went to the movies a lot. Furthermore I am a used bookstore junkie and tend to buy books I like so our house is crowded with all these books. (When I go to somebody's house and they have no books that confuses and disturbs me.)

Also I have three "reading now" books. One is an actual book made of paper that I am reading, another is the bathroom floor book that is read a couple minutes at a time and usually something that lends itself to that type of reading - like poetry, diaries, letters, and so on. And the other is an audiobook (from the library) in my toyota tacoma.

Besides reading I enjoy noisy music and outdoor sports like mountain biking, trail running, dog walking, yada yada yada.



I like last.fm:

http://www.last.fm/user/moik

and especially enjoy flickr:

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