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Do you read? How often? What kind of material? Favorite writer/contributor/blogger etc??

I read the news, I read online conversations, I read articles about research relevant to my job (not just my new job that I love so damn much, I did quite a bit of reading about coffee as a barista as well)

What's your brain consuming?
 
Not enough, other than the literary equivalent of junk food. :D
I read sciency/academic/journal non-fiction all day for my job, and it's interesting stuff most of the time, but I really need to start Reading more in terms of fiction, biographies of great people, etc.
 
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In a country where most people don't read at all, I'm quite proud to keep my reader status alive.
What do I consume? Almost everything... from facebook comments to the great classicals.
 
I've had a love of reading from a very young age. Going to the public library was always an adventure. I read so voraciously that I would walk out with over a dozen books and need to return for new ones a few days later. I mostly read fiction nowadays. I really enjoyed all the non-fiction I read for my anthropology, psychology, world religion, and other social science classes I've taken over the years. I've moved too many times from one apartment to another and across state lines, so I've donated or sold the majority of my collection. I still have a few dozen physical books, but much of my novel reading is done on a Kindle. I want a room in a house someday with walls of books, a sliding ladder to reach the top shelves and multiple pieces of furniture to accommodate however I feel like lounging/sprawling and reading at any given time.

As far as novels these are some of my favorite authors: Terry Pratchett, John Grisham, Mercedes Lackey, Sue Grafton, Ray Bradbury, Patrick Rothfuss, Tad Williams, Kathy Reichs, David Weber, Joe Abercrombie, Patricia Cornwell, and Jim Butcher. Fantasy, modern fantasy, science fiction, and mystery/crime. For non-fiction, it's nearly all related to food/cooking. Cook's Illustrated, Serious Eats, Bon Appetite, etc are my jam. Some of the different current news that pops up on my phone. Wikipedia and other sources for looking things up.

Lately I am thinking of dabbling in some very much brain fluff-ish reading to help stave off some sadness and frustration I've been dealing with.
 
I read everyday. I read an actual paper on the morning train to work everyday. I read scholarly articles and journals and books for work (but I enjoy them). I read recipe books. I read true crime, mysteries, historical books, and something off the top ten. I read current events books and Indigenous authors. I read FB, this site, shampoo bottles, cereal boxes, and anything with words on it.

Reading is life!
 
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I love to read. It's been a pasttime of mine since I can remember. I got interested in Broadway composers; I read several non-fiction books and bios about so many of these famous and non-so-famous Broadway genuises. Rogers, Hart, Hammerstein, Sondheim, Porter, Coward, to name but a few; each one as fascinating to me as the other. Brilliant people, if not a little cray-cray. But hey, aren't a lot of "artistic" folks?

Without exception, each book would lead me to the next. As a result, I ended up reading a lot of historical-perspective books about Vaudeville and the beginnings of the film industry. About silent film stars; early Hollywood workings. It's helped me better understand my fascination with everything Broadway.

Funny aside: BEFORE I came out at 19, I purchased predominately Broadway Show Cast Albums from the then-wonderful Columbia House mail order catalog. This was 1972. That damn catalog was to me like porn is to others. Couldn't wait to get the new mailer each month! I'm still a music freak today--I must have more than 1,000 CDs.

Back to reading. It is fundamental. If I could have but one wish on this site, it would be that READING WITH COMPREHENSION be a requirement before some users post. Nothing frustrates me more than reading people opine about other posters' musings that demonstrate a complete lack of just not comprehension, but understanding what they are reading. Where the hell did these folks go to school?
 
It's do [sic, phone] good <3 I've read the entire series probably four times.
My first time through, and I'm still right at the beginning of the series, but I'm loving the humour so far. I had read some of his books for younger readers when I was a kid, and always remembered them fondly, but just never got around to it.
 
I have very varied reading. I like police detective mysteries and other detective (sans cops) mysteries. Occasional biographies, a lot of sci:-fi. Not much for the romance books. Any novel that can tell a story in an interesting way. Several times I am fascinated by non -fiction.

No one author is on my current list of favorites.
 
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I've always been a total book worm. I usually get turned on to an author and then run thru all their stuff.

I have a weird ocd thing where if I start a book I have to finish it. The only one I remember giving up on was Ulysses. Holy shit how is that always #1 on book lists?

I'll read anything.
I'm a sucker for biographies. Especially ones about Ben Franklin.

I dig Michener. Especially The Drifters.

I do not dig Cormac Mccarthy.

I've read The Outsiders and Where the red fern grows 4,689,754 times each.
 
Sci-Fi, and fantasy. I read something every night before bed. I helps calm my brain so I can sleep. When I was a teen reading kept me sane. I read on my ipad mostly since I'm in bed and don't want to wake my husband. I sometimes miss the tactile experience of paper.
 
I have been sucked down the rabbit hole of r/nosleep, Spooky stories for days.

Waiting out the delivery on a stack of books ranging in subject from history (Vikings!) to vegan cookbooks.

I admit to being a bit of a book hoarder. I keep telling the boy I don't have a book problem I have a lack of shelving problem.

Okay... so like tsundoku is a thing. And I should probably have it tattooed on my hide.
 
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Reading ‘Head Full of Ghosts’ by Paul Tremblay. Nice little story.
 
Reading currently

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (re-read)

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (birthday present from bf)

Starting soon

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan


I read A LOT
 
Reading currently

House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski (re-read)

My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris (birthday present from bf)

Starting soon

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan


I read A LOT

The Strain is a good read. Very Del Toro take on vampires. And nobody sparkles!
 
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Rereading Dust by Joan Francis Turner.

One of my favorite horror-zombie novels. Wonderfully written and well above expectations for the genre.
 
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