Anyone read books anymore?

[Sheepwheat]

I read a lot.

Online sure, but at bedtime, I read from one of those things that have a bunch of little individual papers with words on them. Right now I am reading through the James Herriot books. Nothing like falling asleep with a smile on your face.

I often read sheep production manuals, reports, health guides, vet manuals, forage production info, WW 2 history, etc.

In the morning I read a chapter from my Bible early before everyone else is up. Right now I’m in Acts.

Anyone else read much paper anymore? Hoping for a more lighthearted thread, after I start some doozies! Ha. Diversity is our strength someone said once.

[Blaithin]

Yes, I’m a big bookworm. Tend to to go through phases and haven’t been reading a lot lately, works been a bit busy, but can usually be happily found with a book.

I like historical fiction type stuff mostly. Or classics. Easy reading paperback romances are always good for relaxing with. The many bookshelves in the house are an eclectic mix.

[GALAXIE500]

I have been a bookworm since I was a little kid. I have a lot of interest in history , the car related collection I have is from about 35+ years of collecting. Love my car and tractor magazines and I look forward to getting them every month, by mail. The printed word is still a big thing in this house ! Old fords are what I dig, but I like all of them .

[seldomseen]

Yes! Love reading and have been reading since i was a kid.
Almost all non fiction. History and biography's mostly but anything including Papers like Western Producer and Grain News.

[Maver]

Do Bull catalogues count? I go through a stack of them every spring.
I used to enjoy a good book but have become to lazy to do so now. In a world of instant information, I don't have the patience anymore to read a novel.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I read a lot. No story books, entirely non fiction, technical or historical mostly.
Any and everything I can find about weather, climate, historical climate, geologic history. From all persectives.
Economics, physchology, biology, etc.

[blackpowder]

I read voraciously as a child.
These last 25 years I find I can't concentrate long enough. Since my first marriage LoL. Now I need dedicated reading glasses which I lose .
I still read just not the whole piece.
Few pages here and there.
My library is varied. Enjoy filling it. Collecting.
Last winter was the presidential biography section.
Past sections are war biographies, ww2, the civil war.
Reference books on collecting subjects.
Firearms mostly. Psychology, agronomy, trees.
Decades long past, read all Louis Lamour, Leon Uris, James Clavell etc. etc. etc. Readers Digest Condensed.
Now I just find comfort in sitting in the room and looking at them on the shelves. Floor to ceiling. Like friends.
Read while you can.
Maybe after I retire I can try it again.

[A990]

I have been a bookworm since I was a little kid. I have a lot of interest in history , the car related collection I have is from about 35+ years of collecting. Love my car and tractor magazines and I look forward to getting them every month, by mail. The printed word is still a big thing in this house ! Old fords are what I dig, but I like all of them .

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.. a real r code? your car?

[dalek]

Lots of scifi and horror here. And teen apocalypse stuff. Been on a Neal Shusterman kick lately. We have about 4000 books in the house.

Anybody remember reading Gold In The Grass by Margaret Leatherbarrow? You’d like it if you haven’t Sheepwheat

[Guest]

Last ones I read was the hardy boys
Been a while lol

[burnt]

John Grisham - what a story teller!

Herman Wouk

Wilbur Smith - a must-read if you like Africa lore. A bit graphic at times, but all too historically realistic according to a former worker in Zambia.

C.S. Lewis

J R R Tolkien

James Herriot, my grandchildren love his stories.

Frank Herbert - Dune

Kenneth E. Bailey

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

[redleaf]

Used to be a real voracious reader. Glad my kids also learned to love the written word as well. Sci-fi and history mostly but just about anything. James Herriot is amazing. Larry Niven’s ringworld captivated me. 1491 was another great book. Not as many books anymore because of the internet. I find I am returning to books a little more recently.

[blackpowder]

This thread has me a little nostalgic.
Pre internet, pre sat tv.
All I did was read after chores as a kid. The World Book Encyclopedia was a constant go to. Often just because there may have been nothing else at the time.
It seems the internet is a poor substitute for that kind of companionship.
Something to ponder while slogging through the deepening pile of crap.

[biglentil]

If you own some of the banned Dr. Suess they have sure sky rocketed in price. Im unfamiliar with James Herriot any favorites of his? I'm going to place an order for reading time to the boys.

[burnt]

If you own some of the banned Dr. Suess they have sure sky rocketed in price. Im unfamiliar with James Herriot any favorites of his? I'm going to place an order for reading time to the boys.

I have a set of 3 James Herriot books which were later compiled in "All Creatures Great and Small", alternately amusing, touching and all around good story-telling.

Some of his lines are so memorable, such as when the dog who loved surprising people jumped up put of the grass in front of him with an explosive "WOOF' right in his face. Herriot says that it about caused him "...an involuntary evacuation of the bowels...", a line that I've fully understood a time or two since I read it...

Also, there have been occasions when I resorted to one of his customer's verbiage when handling uncooperative cows - "MOVE OVER, YOU SHITTIN' OLD BOVRIL!", much to my helper's disgust...

Children's version as pictured -