Book Lovers

I have two favorite books and two favorite authors...
Ken Follet - Pillars of the Earth
Wally Lamb - This Much I know is True

I read when I am not working on a stained glass window, mosaic project or exercising. I really do not watch TV except the news so I read quite a bit.

Hmmm I have too many "favorites" to list. I say a book is a favorite when it is one I will read over and over. I read Prince of Tides usually once a year, I love the Nicholas Sparks books and will read them time and again. I usually read at night when I should be sleeping, it is a bad habit, because when I pick up a book it is hard for me to put down.

I am such a literature geek - I developed a major girl crush on one of my fellow book clubbers when she kept talking about metafiction and foreshadowing because people rarely want to read that deeply.

Anyway, one of my all time favorite books is The Posionwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (my list of favorite books would be several pages long so I'll try to contain myself!) I read before I go to bed and on Friday and Saturday nights as soon as the kids go to bed and sometimes at naptime if its been a rough day and I need to treat myself.

I don't have an absolute favorite, but I do have a few that I love: Maia by Richard Adams, Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, Green Darkness by Anya Seton, The Thornbirds by Colleen McCullough, and Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. I love many of the classics that I teach also (especially Lord of the Flies), but I tried to list the books that I read for pleasure. :)

I read mostly at night, but sometimes I have a free moment to myself in the afternoon and I will go relax in the hammock with a good book. That's the best!

It's hard to pick a favorite, but "Confederacy of Dunces" usually win out. I read in bed at night before I go to sleep and also any other time I get a chance. My favorites are reading on a cold, rainy afternoon with a fire and no interuptions or reading on the beach for hours.

Add me to the "too many favorites" to list list. Short list is probably Harry Potter series, Twilight series (I know, I know), anything by Jane Austen- though Pride and Prejudice is my favorite, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, The Hunger Games series, The Percy Jackson series, Jodi Picoult books, Nora Roberts books, Sandra Brown books, The Help, Fifth Life of the Cat Woman, Forgotten Voices of the Holocaust, A Patch of Blue, The Birthing House, The Poisonwood Bible....Those are the ones coming to mind right now. Oh, and like another mother said, I also love Pillars of the Earth by Follet. Oh! And the Book Thief was good, too. My "to read" list is HUGE.

I read whenever I am going to be waiting somewhere...like for a bus or train, at the doctors office, etc...I read when the kids go to bed....I read while I'm cooking dinner if I just have to stir something frequently, I read sometimes when the kids are at school...so basically whenever I have a few minutes. Yeah, I'm a nerd....I admit it.

I really can't pick just one book as a favorite. I could name several books and/or authors that I enjoy for different reasons.

I tend to read in bed, holding a book on my left hand and scratching my husbands back with my right! :) But if it's a good book or I just want to get it finished, I've been known to read almost an entire day. OK, my kids are older, MUCH older. So I can say it's YOYO (you're on your own) for dinner I'm finishing my book.

My favorite book is whatever I am reading at the time. Right now it's "The Forger's Spell" by Edward Dolnick about an artist who painted fake Vermeers and sold them to the Nazis during WWII.

I like to read any time of the day, but especially in bed at night. Trouble is, I don't want to stop reading and often stay up til 2am when I'm in the middle of a good book.

My favorites vary depending on my mood. Too many to list.

Since I work during the week, I mostly read at night. I used to wait until the kids went to bed, but then I figured that it would probably be good for the kids to see that I LOVE to read. So, now I read in front of them and when they go to bed.

1. My favs are Summer Sisters by Judy Blume and the Harry Potter series.

2. I don't have much time to read; so prob during naps and after bedtime.
I really don't read as much as I'd like to though.

"Pride and Prejudice" by Jane Austen. I've probably read it 10 times over the years (the first time being, of course, when it was assigned reading in high school! ;)

I read mostly at night when the kids are in bed and my husband is watching a never-ending parade of bloody and violent sports on tv.

I was reading at night but my eyes have become worse so I read in the afternoon when the light is strong. I am studying Jyotish (Hindu) astrology with a private teacher and so it takes lots of time to read all the materials.
My favorite and most brilliant read is Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power. I read and reread it. Hundreds of pages each with insights that take a lifetime to discover.
My kids are grown so I don't have those squeezing in the reading problems anymore. But, in order to write books I had to wait until my youngest was 10 years old.
I am a published author with my books in a dozen languages. Next to my children that's the pride of my life.

I used to read anytime, while they are playing, during nap time, at night, you name it. But I went through years of just falling asleep all the time, even if I was only sitting for a few minutes.

A few years ago I became hooked on monsters. So now I can read again. I keep my digital books handy. Sometimes I only get a paragraph read before a child needs me. Sometimes, I get a few pages. I LOVE that I can switch between books and have them easy and quick and with me when I am waiting for kids to get out of school (in the line of cars), or while the kids are playing in the tunnels in McDonald's. It's fun. A few years ago, I'd be the only one there with a digital book reader. Now more than half the moms have them some days.

Favorite books....all kinds, christian self help, christian historical fiction, court room drama, etc.

I read whenever I can.

It's rare that I read a book twice. I don't have one absolute favorite book - I love authors....

I used to love all Danielle Steele books - then it became the same story in a different place...

I LOVE Janet Evanovich's series - Stephanie Plum - oh my! Drama, suspense, love - you got it all!

I love Tom Clancy, John Grisham, David Baldacci, S.M. Stirling...

I read when I can - at bed time - while dinner is cooking and things are waiting to be turned over, etc.

when do you read? what do you like to read?

I'm a complete book nerd (I have an English Lit degree) so I read EVERYTHING and anything! For education and for fun.
I tend to like biographies, spiritual topics, fiction, and tragedy/triumph tales.
I like Ken Follet, Jodi Piccoult, Anita Shreve, Dickens, Poe, .....
I love books about early geographical exploration, and everything through The Help......
Soooooo-any book can be my favorite and I mostly read at night, after my son is in bed, at lunchtime at work, in traffic, and sometimes throughout the day when my son is in school.
I have been known to ready a book a day.

Shoot, I don't have a favorite book. It changes around. My favorite authors are Mercedes Lackey and Nora Roberts. And there's a great book by Dean Koontz called "Lightning" which I really enjoy. I can read books by all of these people several times over.

I usually read when I eat, and at bedtime. I'm taking a class now, so fiction has been replaced by studying at bedtime :)

1) Favorite book? That's an impossible question! We'd be here all day listing my favorites!

2) I don't remember the last time I READ a book, but I am HOOKED on audio books-- I ALWAYS have my MP3 player going!

1. Don't have one!!! I have a short list of about 20 authors (and about 150 books). I do have a few thousand books on my long list that I love, and several thousand more that I like. This dislike pile is much higher, but I sell or donate those ones.

2. When I'm "cleaning". When kiddo is in a class. At night. When I first wake up. Whenever.

((When my son was a baby I read 50 some odd mystery books by Rex Stout for the first time, and reread the Earth's Children series by Auel and the Dragonrider series by McCaffrey when he was nursing. It was the ONLY way I stayed awake the first few months. Also how I accidently found out : Not Colic...Gas. My son was a marathon burper. He'd burb in 5 min, but if I just kept patting and rocking about 45 minutes later a belch the size of denmark would ensue. Once I figured that out... he was the happiest baby EVER. So I just kipped the baby and the book into one arm, and patted with the other and read, and rocked, and patted, and read, and rocked, and patted... for about an hour. Each. And. Every. Time. He. Nursed. For months.))

Hmmm.. one favorite is tough. Here are some my tops though:

Poisonwood Bible (Kingsolver)
Time Travelers Wife (Niffenegger)
Book Thief (Zusak)
Forgotten Garden (Morton)
Angle of Repose (Stegner)
Still Alice (Genova)
Room (Donoghue)
Hunger Games (Collins)
Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Barrows)

I read most when I am on the treadmill in the early morning. 30+ minutes a day at least 4 times a week. I also read every night before bed, but generally only get a few pages in before I fall asleep.

1. The books that I've read more than once are: the Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, Anne of Green Gables, and Wisdom Hunter by Randall Arthur

2. Definitely at night. :)

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society should be required reading for everyone. Don't let the title put you off - it's all-around wonderful!

I mostly read at night, or sometimes on my lunch break at work...

One of my most favorite books (and I have a lot of favorites) would be One Thousand White Women by Jim Fergus. It's a fictional story about a woman named May Dodd who is traded, along with 999 other women to Native American Indians for 1000 horses to the U.S. Army. It is her story and it is absolutely amazing! I love love love it!

My favorite is The Brothers K by David James Duncan, though I have many other "near favorites."

I read whenever I can, and a lot less often than I would like.