I mean really love reading. Like, the words come alive to you.
2006-12-12 08:58:06 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Oh YEAH. Count five in this household. For our 25th anniversary a couple years back, my wife and I took the day off -- had lunch at our favorite restaurant and then planned three hours in Powell's City of Books, the world's best bookstore. (Yeah, we're both nerds. Her dad is an actual Rocket Scientist...) Powell's is a block on each side and three stories high, and most of it is used books. They have computer kiosks situated throughout the store, where you can look up titles, authors, etc. and get directions to where the book is. You can take the books you're looking at into the espresso bar and, if you decide you don't want a book, they have restacking bins right next to the counter. It's awesome. (It's right down the street from Everyday Music, an almost comparably cool used-CD store, but Powell's is one of a kind.)
We rarely get time to read any more; for me it's usually when I'm traveling -- airports and airplanes are a great place to catch up. But we have fun talking about books with our kids. Most recently it's been our ten-year-old son, who really got sucked into reading when he was six or seven. He finished the Harry Potter series before he was eight and that threw him off into other series (a recent favorite: the "Warriors" books by Erin Hunter, about several rival clans of feral cats in a wooded area, and the struggles for dominance between characters; they're VERY well written and enjoyable adventure books).
Last spring we started him on the stories of Sherlock Holmes, and that was very rewarding; he made it through "The Hound of the Baskervilles," and did a book report on it for third grade. Lately he's discovered Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, two of my favorite horror authors. We got started on them for Hallowe'en, but he just read a biography on Poe for his most recent book report. He talked about Poe's horror with such excitement that the class is champing at the bit to read these stories for themselves, so we've bought a copy of selected tales and poems and will give it to his school's library.
2006-12-12 09:20:07 · answer #1 · answered by Scott F 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Like others have already said, it depends upon the reading material at hand. I can't say I'd get very excited about a romance novel or anything like that, but then I can get truly geeky over the right kind of sci-fi or dark fantasy.
2006-12-12 17:15:32 · answer #2 · answered by solarius 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love reading, I become one with the books
2006-12-12 17:04:11 · answer #3 · answered by FoxyFoxy, Kickass Drama Queen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I DO! I DO!My huband thinks I'm chronic.I ususally read a couple
books a week.In the last six months I've read about fourty.It's
kind of an escape for me.Makes you use your imagination.
2006-12-12 17:30:33 · answer #4 · answered by IAM2INSANE 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have over 800 books and counting in my collective, does that count? LOL. I love a good book and appreciate the written word- I do a lot of studying and have a lot of favorite genres; horror, crime, mystery...
2006-12-12 17:01:29 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Reading.... Dragon LOVES reading!!!!!!!!!!! Yep. Words come alive. :)
2006-12-12 17:01:21 · answer #6 · answered by VLIGER DRAGÖN 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Me. Every time I pick up a book, it's like I can "see" what's happening in the story.I prefer reading to television.
2006-12-12 17:01:51 · answer #7 · answered by fugly 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I love to read... but I have to be interested in the topic.
2006-12-12 17:09:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do but it all depends on the book I am reading.
2006-12-12 17:02:29 · answer #9 · answered by telis_gr1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I do.. My mom used to call me a bookworm because I'd always be with a book.
2006-12-12 17:42:01 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋