I don't watch much TV during the week (because I'm traveling and usually even if I am in my hotel room at the right time for a show I watch, I figure it's better with my TiVo on the weekend), and do a lot of reading then and on airplanes. And at meals. And on weekends...um, yeah. But also I read incredibly fast.

I'll be honest, my book-reading has really fallen off. My reading rate is slow, and my retention stinks if I do read fast. If I like a book, I want to live in it for awhile, walk around with the characters while, and after, I read, imagine the afterward. Transition from the world of one book to another is...not difficult, exactly. But I like to take my time with it. So I don't read nearly as many books as I used to.

I've also shed my need to finish every book I start. I've just about abandoned genre, as well. I read/beta so much fanfic that I get my genre quota there, so I save the book-reading time for something I don't usually get in fic. I get most of my book recs here, actually. And am seldom steered wrong. I can think of three or four off the top of my head that were rec'd here that stay with me still.

I suppose, like the tortoise I am by nature, I don't streak through books I like, I wallow.

I don't watch much TV during the week (because I'm traveling and usually even if I am in my hotel room at the right time for a show I watch, I figure it's better with my TiVo on the weekend), and do a lot of reading then and on airplanes. And at meals. And on weekends...um, yeah. But also I read incredibly fast.

I wish I could read on planes, cars, trains, etc.

I read fast, and I can read damn near anywhere. But things have been just stressful enough for long enough that I'm not reading a lot of new-to-me books, I'm hitting comfort reading. And the new-to-me books I am reading? Lurid gothic and occult thriller/romances.

I just got Cherie Priest's Maplecroft from the library -- has anyone read it?

I think I've read 12 or so novels so far this year. That'll probably fall off a bit once I go back to work this Tuesday.

I just got Cherie Priest's Maplecroft from the library -- has anyone read it?

I started it. But I just wasn't into a Lovecraftian mood, so I took it back to the library. The writing in the first few chapters was good, though. It's on my list of things to try again when I'm in the right head space.

I've gotten lots of free or cheap eBooks out of BookBub, but only a few of the new-to-me books really hold my attention. Maybe I'm just in the land of "you get what you pay for," but I've read fanfic better than a lot of the stuff I'm seeing. But I'm learning which descriptors to avoid: "frothy" and "spicy" and, sadly, "rollicking". And any plot description for a mystery that gives equal weight to the female protagonist being as worried about her relationship as she is with the bodies all over the place.

Tep -- I just re-read it for the 3rd time this weekend. I really enjoyed it! It's a fantastic mashup of Lovecraft and alt-history. I think you'll like it.

I have no idea how many books I've read this year so far. Looking at just my Nook, Scribd and Oyster, I count about 145, but I dunno how many physical books I've done, because they're all packed away for the next 2 weeks. meara is visiting KC in a couple of weeks, so we can go out to dinner and just read fast near one another...

I lose track of how many books in a year, but probably four or six in a month. and the virtual "Nation", which I really do like, even if I do wish they had a comics section to take the edge off.

I have three books on my night table right now. One is None of the Above by my friend (and my dad's urologist!) Ilene. The others are The Girl on the Train, which is supposed to be this year's Gone Girl, I guess (it's already really compelling), and Handling the Truth: On the Writing of Memoir, by Beth Kephart, who's also a local here. Oh, and I picked up Anne Lamott's Travelling Mercies at the used bookstore on the way home from work the other night. It's such a dangerous place for a used bookstore to be, if you're me.