Reading for me is right up there after breathing. The last few years I've been able to read a great deal because of ill health. It won't always be that way but for now I'm making the most of it. Last year, I read slightly over 150 books. I read everywhere: at the bus stop, in the bathroom; I read myself to sleep at night and in the morning, read...
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Reading for me is right up there after breathing. The last few years I've been able to read a great deal because of ill health. It won't always be that way but for now I'm making the most of it. Last year, I read slightly over 150 books. I read everywhere: at the bus stop, in the bathroom; I read myself to sleep at night and in the morning, read a chapter from a spirituality or think book to wake up. And, I can hardly clean up the kitchen or cook without an audio book to listen to, usually straight history or a classic.
The books that I read have extended through a very eclectic range from biographical novelists like Irving Stone, Margaret George, Philippa Gregory, Patricia Finney, Bernard Cornwell, Cecelia Holland, Willa Cather, Robert Alexander & Tracy Chevalier; staight history like Allison Wier & David Mc Cullough, black literature like Margaret Johnson-Hodges, Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelo & Zora Neal Thurston, lots of classics lincluding Austen, Joyce, Dosteyesky, Virginia Woolf, Nabokov, Pynchon, Salinger, Dickens & Hawthorne. I also read series books like the Jan Karon books, the Thomas Kinkaide books, Robin Chiaverini's Elm Creek Quilts novels & the Red Hat Society series. I like books with heart like those by Luanne Rice, Joanne Harris, Nicholas Evans, Anne Lamott, Jacqueline Mitchard, Jodi Picoult, Richard Paul Evans, Rebecca Wells, Anita Shreve, Nicholas Sparks, Marisa de los Santos & Mitch Albom.
I also read non-fiction books about things like women's health, psychology, decorating, art & The Survivors' Club. And, I'd like to blog with other people who read some of the same books I do and find out other people reactions to them.
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