Does anyone enjoy reading?

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  • [Deleted User]
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  • Geniedebs
    Geniedebs Online Community Member Posts: 56 Contributor
    I think leaving  books in pubs is a good idea. But turn the music down or off, I like quiet for those who like reading with refreshment.
  • debbiedo49
    debbiedo49 Online Community Member Posts: 2,890 Championing
    Tesco where I live has book donation shelf. You pay donations 
  • fishingmum
    fishingmum Online Community Member Posts: 562 Empowering
    I love reading but have little time to do so. I normally get books from the charity shop and if I like them I will get the full series online from ebay or similar as second hand. I prefer factual books, but in the last 15 years got in to fiction with certain authors, mostly Terry Pratchett, David Gemmell, David Eddings, Raymond E Feist, now look for things along those lines. I find it an escape and lets my brain do what it needs to do in order for me to get with the rest of the day.
  • Sam_Alumni
    Sam_Alumni Scope alumni Posts: 7,602 Championing
    I am currently reading This is going to hurt by Adam Kay, it's the secret diaries of a junior doctor and a really interesting, sometimes funny, sometimes sobering look at the NHS from the inside.

    If you like non-fiction medical books, you may enjoy this one!
  • ayjay
    ayjay Online Community Member Posts: 16 Contributor
    fishingmum said:
     but in the last 15 years got in to fiction with certain authors, mostly Terry Pratchett, David Gemmell, David Eddings, Raymond E Feist, now look for things along those lines.
    Check out Terry Brooks, from your list there I think you'll like his books.

    And maybe Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time  although he gets a bit long winded, certainly in comparison to David Gemmell.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Brooks_bibliography


    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wheel_of_Time





  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 1,988 Championing
    Victoriad said:
    CockneyRebel said:
    Any of the Janet and John series :)
    Hahah ;)
    Are you a fan of the Ladybird Books too  ;)

    Yes I am now.  :o
  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 1,988 Championing
    bobives789 said:
    why not try charity shops, you may find some tiles that suit.
    Ditto. Love to browse. If I don't like the book I just re donate.
  • [Deleted User]
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  • fishingmum
    fishingmum Online Community Member Posts: 562 Empowering
    Victoriad said:
    whistles said:
    Victoriad said:
    CockneyRebel said:
    Any of the Janet and John series :)
    Hahah ;)
    Are you a fan of the Ladybird Books too  ;)

    Yes I am now.  :o
    Current fave is “How to work out the husband”......even after 30 odd years that man still refuses to do as he’s told ;););)......and that’s the reason I bought into that particular model....was led to believe he was in full working order!

    I am sure there are also haynes manuals for working on your man lmho.
  • fishingmum
    fishingmum Online Community Member Posts: 562 Empowering
    Victoriad said:
    whistles said:
    Victoriad said:
    CockneyRebel said:
    Any of the Janet and John series :)
    Hahah ;)
    Are you a fan of the Ladybird Books too  ;)

    Yes I am now.  :o
    Current fave is “How to work out the husband”......even after 30 odd years that man still refuses to do as he’s told ;););)......and that’s the reason I bought into that particular model....was led to believe he was in full working order!

    I am sure there are also haynes manuals for working on your man lmho.
  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 1,988 Championing
    You could be right. I know I was surprised to find the other books in the adult sexton- until I looked at one. 
  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 1,988 Championing
    fishingmum said:
    Victoriad said:
    whistles said:
    Victoriad said:
    CockneyRebel said:
    Any of the Janet and John series :)
    Hahah ;)
    Are you a fan of the Ladybird Books too  ;)

    Yes I am now.  :o
    Current fave is “How to work out the husband”......even after 30 odd years that man still refuses to do as he’s told ;););)......and that’s the reason I bought into that particular model....was led to believe he was in full working order!

    I am sure there are also haynes manuals for working on your man lmho.
    Wasnt the book men are from Mars women are from Venus are self help guide? 
    Though as we know some women are from Mars, I do believe I confessed this not long after I joined.


    Back to books oddly I am struggling to read. I don't know if the lighter evenings distracting me- is not as if I am outside our going anywhere.
  • fishingmum
    fishingmum Online Community Member Posts: 562 Empowering
    @whistles it could be you do not feel as much in hibernate mode due to it being lighter outside so your body may not be feeling like sit down in read instead oooo lets get outside and do something.

    I do wonder sometimes about being from completely different planets lol
  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 1,988 Championing
    I need to find something else to do. I don't go out in the evenings.
    That's nights nights time isn't it. With the horlicks  :)
  • fishingmum
    fishingmum Online Community Member Posts: 562 Empowering
    what sort of thing interest you? I knit, make soaps and candles, make candle holders make gardening things, I read more often than not in winter as well as I can not get out as much, but it really depends on what you can access and interests you
  • doodle
    doodle Online Community Member Posts: 10 Empowering
    JennysDad said:
    I read almost entirely on Kindle these days, for portability and for being able to enlarge the text to a point where I'm not struggling. May be tempted to go to audio books next. Currently re-reading the 'complete works' of Charles Dickens and now enjoying "The Old Curiosity Shop" again.

  • doodle
    doodle Online Community Member Posts: 10 Empowering
    I use a kindle for the same reason. Audible books are fab and I am using this more and more. Some free stories and radio plays on YouTube ?
  • whistles
    whistles Online Community Member Posts: 1,988 Championing
    The radio plays on the phone without using your days doesn't it? 
    Does Kindle connection use your gb?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 43 Listener
    I miss reading, as being my wife's full time carer and her health is getting worse. I don't have the time anymore. Only a few forums or the odd online paper.  

    I managed to read a cracking book by Roger Cook on his days on the Cook Report.

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