Always a wonderful topic, courtesy of the RevGals:
1. Fiction: what kind, detective novels, historical stuff, thrillers, romance????
I haven’t read a lot of fiction of late. Poems, because they can be read in small doses. I guess I would say I read contemporary fiction, stuff like Three Junes and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. I also just bought Khaled Hosseini’s latest, though I didn’t make it very far into Kite Runner. The WaPo said the new one is even better and the subject matter appealed to me more.
2. When you get a really good book do you read it all in one chunk or savour it slowly?
I like to savor, except for Harry Potter, which I can’t put down until it’s done. R & I read book 5 to one another on vacation when it came out, then when we got home we sat on the couch next to each other and finished it. Thankfully we read at the same rate. Then CG Auntie visited right when book 6 came out and I was a very dreadful host. It’s like a drug.
3. Is there a book you keep returning to and why?
Not really, except for books I read as a child. I’ll re-read A Wrinkle in Time any day, as well as To Kill a Mockingbird.
4. Apart from the Bible which non-fiction book has influenced you the most?
I was very influenced in high school by a book by Ornstein and Ehrlich called New World New Mind. It talks about how biologically, our brains have evolved to respond to an immediate threat, but what’s really threatening to destroy us is the gradual stuff that just sort of hums along undetected until it’s too late to do anything about it (cough*globalwarming*cough). This is part of the reason why random kidnappings make the news, and the ever-ticking world population counter doesn’t. Very thought provoking for a 17 year old.
5. Describe a perfect place to read. (could be anywhere!!!)
OK, so I have two little kids, which means most areas of the house collect clutter at an alarming rate. But the living room is one area of the house that I resolve to keep clutter-free. It is my refuge. I have a big chair-and-a-half with ottoman where I like to camp out and read. There’s a decent lamp nearby, an ipod player with remote control across the room, and a table that’s just the right place for a tasty beverage, either hot or cold depending on the time of year.
Hawaii was also a great place to read, on the lanai right outside our door. But Hawaii is good for just about anything.
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ack! I forgot to put the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time on mine! I loved that book. Loved loved loved. Should read again, since it’s on my shelf and all….
I feel your Harry Potter drug problem. Except I’m like that with pretty much every book that’s good….
I can’t put down the Harry Potters either! But they aren’t alone… the Phil Rickman books about Merrily Watkins fall into the same category. Great play - hope you have a lovely weekend!
I read A Wrinkle in Time about 4 times a year. And I’m pretty sure there’s a spell placed on HP books against putting them down before turning the final page.
And I fotgot to note Billy Collins and Mary Oliver poetry on my comment on CleverTitleTeri’s post….and I love my childhood reads - The Borrowers (reread it to my sons), Marguerite Henry books (about horses), The Little Prince (ok, not only for children), and good historical fiction (but I still need to read the John Adams book and other more current stuff..)
I am quite near the top of my library holds list for HP VII. I should have it the morning after it’s released. I can hardly wait. I thought Rowling did a superb job in setting up the final confrontation.
I like that reading to each other on vacation etc.
I know about the amazing clutter thing. And they get a lot of my time reading too.
Loved Wrinkle in Time. Good play
I’ve never been to Hawaii–maybe I should read James Michener and travel there in my head
I used to have a chair like that. But there were the kids, and the dog, and the cats, and . . . sigh. It was a very nice chair when it lived at the store.
One of the best things about having children is re-reading favorite books from childhood. I love seeing them again as an adult, though some fare better than others.
I’m with all of you on Harry Potter. I can go into the wee hours of a night before I even know it.
As far as a favorite place to read, there isn’t one now; but there is a memory firmly placed in my mind of reading on Sunday afternoons at my best friend’s home — a large stone house with a somewhat dim library in the attic which had a window seat in a big bay window. There we would curl up and read our separate books in a wonderful time of escape together.