Bookworms Unite!

CultivateYourGarden
edited November 15 in Introduce Yourself
Hi all!

Any other bookworms out there? I would love support from people who also share a passion for reading, theater and education!
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  • toriraeh
    toriraeh Posts: 105 Member
    Hey there! I'm a total bookworm. Got my degree in Literature. Add me!
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    Love reading and go to the theater often. Welcome! What have you read lately that you would recommend?
  • Howdoyoufeeltoday
    Howdoyoufeeltoday Posts: 481 Member
    I too enjoy da books and all dat literary stuuff!!! ;) I love classics and newer stuff. I enjoy well written books and I also read poorly written books that are just simply fun to veg out too (twilight!) ^_^. can't count the amount of times I've read hamlet! Big graphic novel and comic book fan too! Also I play guitar, craft, paint...I'm just a geek in general lol
  • InTheTardis84
    InTheTardis84 Posts: 10 Member
    Welcome to MFP! I live to read and work in a library.
  • superfox12082
    superfox12082 Posts: 512 Member
    I love to read anything!
  • melizabird919
    melizabird919 Posts: 29 Member
    Hi! I'm a huge reader and would also love support from literature minded folks.
  • jenniferinfl
    jenniferinfl Posts: 456 Member
    Also a bookworm.. Lucky enough to work in a library and spend my days sampling books. Always have my library card maxed out and several books in progress..
  • My_Butt
    My_Butt Posts: 2,300 Member
    I love reading. I have ADD and ADHD really bad, so it takes me about four months to read a book.
  • waterbyrde
    waterbyrde Posts: 30 Member
    Another book lover - I also work in a library, but in the teaching and learning group. :)

    What are you all reading? Looking for suggestions.
  • MeganFlanagan16
    MeganFlanagan16 Posts: 136 Member
    Woot Woot! I love reading! 100 books a year :)
  • sculptcha
    sculptcha Posts: 163 Member
    great idea for a thread! what are you currently reading? I'm reading the pevear/volokhonsky translation of crime and punishment.

    friend request sent. let me know if you start a book club group lol
  • musicandarts
    musicandarts Posts: 187 Member
    Hi! I'm a huge reader and would also love support from literature minded folks.

    What are you reading now? I am starting Darwin's Origin of Species. Not exactly literature, but definitely worth reading.
  • musicandarts
    musicandarts Posts: 187 Member
    sculptcha wrote: »
    great idea for a thread! what are you currently reading? I'm reading the pevear/volokhonsky translation of crime and punishment.

    friend request sent. let me know if you start a book club group lol

    I read the Constance Garnett translation. Did you read Brothers Karamazhov?
  • musicandarts
    musicandarts Posts: 187 Member
    Woot Woot! I love reading! 100 books a year :)

    That is an amazing target. I could never do more than forty an year. Other types of reading always gets in the way.
  • GBrady43068
    GBrady43068 Posts: 1,256 Member
    edited March 2015
    I read quite a bit. Lots of young adult/children's books because I feel like books for "adults" sometimes put a big damper on creativity..it has to be "believable". I've been trying to work my way through all the Newbury Award winners. But I mix in "serious" reading as well..."Pride and Prejudice" recently and I'll probably take another stab at "Catcher in the Rye" soon. Reading "Ida B." by Katherine Hannigan right now..
  • MeganFlanagan16
    MeganFlanagan16 Posts: 136 Member
    I read quite a bit. Lots of young adult/children's books because I feel like books for "adults" sometimes put a big damper on creativity..it has to be "believable". I've been trying to work my way through all the Newbury Award winners. But I mix in "serious" reading as well..."Pride and Prejudice" recently and I'll probably take another stab at "Catcher in the Rye" soon. Reading "Ida B." by Katherine Hannigan right now..

    I love reading young adult. Right now I am reading Trial By Fire, which is great so far. I just got done reading a book called "Red Queen", which was amazing and would recommend to anyone! Luckily I have a desk job and lots of down time to help with my habit lol
  • toriraeh
    toriraeh Posts: 105 Member
    waterbyrde wrote: »
    Another book lover - I also work in a library, but in the teaching and learning group. :)

    What are you all reading? Looking for suggestions.

    I love fantasy books. I just started getting into the genre. I read all of Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series (incredible, highly recommend) and am currently reading book two of Robert Jordan's series.

    Pretty much all you guys can friend me! I love book people!
  • JanuaryButterfly84
    JanuaryButterfly84 Posts: 7 Member
    I LOVE books.... And anything to do with imagination....
  • acquilla30
    acquilla30 Posts: 147 Member
    I own thousands of books from paranormal romance to science, history to historical romance, philosophy, human rights, mysteries and thrillers lol I have eclectic tastes. Feel free to add me!!
  • YokiLenko
    YokiLenko Posts: 89 Member
    I love to read. I'm real big on reading fiction and anything with supernatural elements to it. I tend to read a bit too much and spend a bit more than I should on ebooks! =)
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    sculptcha wrote: »
    great idea for a thread! what are you currently reading? I'm reading the pevear/volokhonsky translation of crime and punishment.

    friend request sent. let me know if you start a book club group lol

    I really like the Pevear/Volokhonsky Doestoevsky translations. Got me back into his books.

    I'm reading the new(ish) David Mitchell, Bone Clocks, but am not very far yet.
  • acquilla30
    acquilla30 Posts: 147 Member
    edited March 2015
    I love to read. I'm real big on reading fiction and anything with supernatural elements to it. I tend to read a bit too much and spend a bit more than I should on ebooks! =)

    Amazon is totally making a killing on me!!! I have had to set an eBook budget lol or we would being making some sacrifices lol.
  • 1mumrevolution
    1mumrevolution Posts: 269 Member
    Re reading Harry Potter ❤️ and just finished The Enemy series by Charlie Hogson which is set in an awesome post apocalyptic zombie infested world.
    Big fan of dystopia and quality young adult works.
    Literature graduate, professional writer.
  • TheVirgoddess
    TheVirgoddess Posts: 4,535 Member
    I'm a reader, too. I have to read.

    I'm reading the Lucas Davenport series right now. Some good ones I've read recently:

    Big Little Lies
    The Girl on the Train
    I'll Give You the Sun
    The Handmaid's Tale
  • slamminhams
    slamminhams Posts: 6 Member
    yay fellow book people!

    Personally I'm catching up on some Tolkein at the moment, not sure where to go next!

    feel free to friend me all :)
  • RaeBeeBaby
    RaeBeeBaby Posts: 4,246 Member
    I also love to read - anything and everything from herbal nutritional healing to pulp fiction. I particularly enjoy historical based fiction and thrillers. After a few light hearted reads, I'll throw a classic into the mix just so I don't feel like a penny dreadful shmuck.

    I'm also a writer and some day will write the great American novel along with a couple children's books for my grandkids. :o For now I post on MFP and journal infrequently.

    I'm currently reading The Witch of Cologne by Tobsha Learner.
    Waiting in the wings -
    How to Be an American Housewife by Margaret Dilloway
    The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
    The Biography of Oswald West by Joe R. Blakely
    Brides of Eden by Linda Crew

    I'm sure there are other book groups on MFP, but I think we should start a new one! It's hard to keep up with a rambling thread (in my experience).

    I welcome new friends, so feel free to send me a request!
  • sup3rb3ast
    sup3rb3ast Posts: 73 Member
    So many readers! That is awesome. English Literature is my second major, the other one being Psychology, and I am in the last year of my undergrad degree. I will be sticking with psychology for graduate school but I hope I can complete a PhD in literature in the future.

    As far as genre, I love speculative fiction. Particularly sprawling series. My favorites are A Song of Ice and Fire, The Dark Tower, Lord of the Rings, and the Earthsea Chronicles. I also read other genres. I love classics from the nineteenth century, Jane Eyre is my favorite from that genre. Other all-time favorites include 1984, Animal Farm, A Clockwork Orange and A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

    I would love to befriend fellow bookworms!
  • JanuaryButterfly84
    JanuaryButterfly84 Posts: 7 Member
    Re reading Harry Potter ❤️ and just finished The Enemy series by Charlie Hogson which is set in an awesome post apocalyptic zombie infested world.
    Big fan of dystopia and quality young adult works.
    Literature graduate, professional writer.
    I'm currently rereading HP too. Can't get enough....
  • Hi! Im a huge bookworm as well! I recently got a tattoo of a open book with an ink well and feather pen next to it. On the pages is a quote from Harry Potter. I'm new here and would love some fitness friends if anyone wants to add!
  • Rari2017
    Rari2017 Posts: 10 Member
    Hi I am also a huge book fan. My favorite author is J.R Ward she as a series on the black daggerbrother hood.
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