Any bookworms out there?

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  • puffbrat
    puffbrat Posts: 2,806 Member
    How is The Sixth Extinction? It was given to me as a gift, but I haven't had a chance to start it yet.
  • wishfuljune
    wishfuljune Posts: 2,603 Member
    Hello! I was also an English major in college as well.

    Currently reading:
    All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
    House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

    Some of my favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Neil Gaiman, Flannery O'Connor, Jonathan Franzen, Tim O'Brien, Margaret Atwood, uhh basically anything.
  • erialcelyob
    erialcelyob Posts: 341 Member
    Bookworm here! How else do you cope with the world out there?
  • CSARdiver
    CSARdiver Posts: 6,252 Member
    While I don't have the time to read as much as I used to I still read at least a book every two weeks now. My tastes have changed and while I found fiction more interesting in my youth I find myself far more fascinated by historical journals. I just finished a home renovation and setting up a reading room in the loft. Encouraging my kids to be readers and finally getting the classics up on the shelves.

    I just finished The Wilderness Hunter - Theodore Roosevelt, and starting to read Harry Potter with my son - we trade off reading pages to each other and the other kids settle in to listen.
  • Kullerva
    Kullerva Posts: 1,114 Member
    wishfuljune wrote: »
    Hello! I was also an English major in college as well.

    Currently reading:
    All The Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr
    House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

    Some of my favorite authors: J.D. Salinger, Neil Gaiman, Flannery O'Connor, Jonathan Franzen, Tim O'Brien, Margaret Atwood, uhh basically anything.

    Thread bump.

    Ugh, House of Leaves. 3 hours of my life I'll never get back. (I had to read it for school.)

    Atwood fans would also like Irving. "The Fourth Hand," "The World According to Garp," "A Prayer for Owen Meany," etc.
  • OliveGirl128
    OliveGirl128 Posts: 801 Member
    edited August 2017
    winklerkn wrote: »
    I'm a book nerd too/graduated English major! What kind of genres/authors do you read? I've also tried MFP a handful of times and never seemed to stick with it very well, but I recommitted a while back and just reached my 83rd day of consectuively logging my food and exercise! What are your goals?

    Another book worm and graduate with a BA in English here :)

    Welcome Op!

    eta: just realized this was an old thread!
  • susanlynn228
    susanlynn228 Posts: 2 Member
    I'm a retired Reading teacher, so I LOVE to read. I like to read a lot of different genres. I just rejoined MFP, too, and hopefully I will stay with it this time!
  • DamienAngelica
    DamienAngelica Posts: 281 Member
    Maybe it's an old thread worth resurrecting? I'm a huge bookworm and writer. Currently reading Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.
  • OliveGirl128
    OliveGirl128 Posts: 801 Member
    DamienAngelica wrote: »
    Maybe it's an old thread worth resurrecting? I'm a huge bookworm and writer. Currently reading Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz.

    True, I just felt a bit silly welcoming the OP lol.
  • DamienAngelica
    DamienAngelica Posts: 281 Member
    edited August 2017
    I realized that belatedly. Then I started a new post in Chit Chat called what are you reading. Maybe all the bookworms can congregate there.
  • hoffman2300
    hoffman2300 Posts: 104 Member
    bookworm here! I loved Oryx and Crake (and pretty much anything by Margaret Atwood). I tend to like thrillers I can escape into, read quickly and then forget (which is problematic when I'm back at the library and check out books that 3-pages in I realize I've read. The Atwood books are actually an exception to that because I love to linger over them. I also love speculative fiction, young adult dystopian... yeah, I like to escape :)

    Happy to have other booky friends -
  • serendipity22
    serendipity22 Posts: 248 Member
    Absolutely. I have 350 books in my apartment. I donate books to charity often but I always buy more. My job is across the street from a library and there is a great used bookstore two blocks away.
  • BethAnnieT
    BethAnnieT Posts: 263 Member
    I need a good book. An recommendations? I need something like... dystopian, post-apocalyptic (Jericho, but book form?), zombie outbreak, alien invasion, sci-fi, anything like that. Summer is the time for these weird escapes for me. Open to young adult or regular adult.
  • Kullerva
    Kullerva Posts: 1,114 Member
    edited August 2017
    The Gap Cycle has the apocalypse, aliens, space opera and political conspiracies. The first book is tough going though so you might want to go with the second. (The final scene of the series, though, involves a proton cannon, hull sealant, a singularity grenade (a grenade that detonates to form a black hole!) and aliens blowing themselves to pieces with their own gun.)

    I love rereading the Foundation series in summer. That's more worldbuilding/logic-based sci-fi; if you're looking for the fun shoot-em-up space aliens type of book, almost anything by Douglas Adams or Robert Heinlein should scratch that itch.
  • vanilla_frosting
    vanilla_frosting Posts: 104 Member
    edited August 2017
    lucyloutoo wrote: »
    farfromthetree wrote: »
    My kids make fun of me because my favorite type of book is usually "chick lit" with not much substance...but for me it is a great escape. When I get the muchies after dinner, going to bed with a good book helps tremendously!!

    I have a slight weakness for Janet Evanovitch and get Stephanie Plum series.

    Love her - I just finished Turbo Twenty-Three.

  • BethAnnieT
    BethAnnieT Posts: 263 Member
    If you all get a "friending" from me, it's because of this thread. Don't be scared. :)
  • halfmill1
    halfmill1 Posts: 35 Member
    I’m a book worm. Anyone who wants can feel free to add me.
  • ranmalih
    ranmalih Posts: 59 Member
    "I never loved to read. One does not love breathing." - one of my favourite lines from To Kill a Mockingbird

    Happy to add fellow bookworms, I'm a big fan of anything in the fantasy genre.
    Currently reading Turtles All the Way Down by John Green which is being less fascinating than expected.
  • Barfly57
    Barfly57 Posts: 333 Member
    How have I not seen this thread? Oh yeah, I was reading...

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