Book Lovers | Pad Patter 8.9

YEs, I love to read! There is nothing better than a good book to take your mind off your troubles! These days, I mostly read on my kindle. Have you heard of Bookbub? YOu can get lots of books for free. I also love using kindle unlimited. I mostly read romance, historical romance, or romance with a little suspense!

I might have to try the Outlander Series, @gonewiththewind. I've heard good things about it and I've never seen the tv show.

 

I just finished reading this too and really enjoyed it. I know it didn't make it onto the Book Club to read list but I thought it sounded interesting and I'm so glad I read it.

I've been an avid reader all my life. I love mysteries, fantasies, sci-fi, thrillers and historical fiction. I'm currently just started The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd. I always enjoy her novels and this one is quite different as its set in biblical times. I'm also reading The King of Shanghai by Ian Hamilton. He writes mysteries with a Chinese Canadian heroine sleuth!

 

You will love Outlander.. SUPERB!

 

well... since I do all the posts for the "book club" here... I think it's safe to say I LOVE TO READ!

I have always loved to read. My mom taught me to read before I went to school by bribing me with a quarter for every book I finished from the library. She quickly had to stop that because we were putting her in the poor house. LOL! I thinks that's also why my sister is such a fast reader. Hee hee! I also used to spend all of my babysitting money on books. Now I'm a big cheapskate and will only read what I can get for free from Amazon or library, which generally isn't a problem. I'll never catch up with all the books I want to read. And, I'll read just about anything if it's well written and grabs my attention. That's why I love the book club here. I've found some really great books that way.

 

I love to read too...but usually it's books with my kids. I'm always searching for good picture books and chapter books to read with my kids. We had a goal last year to read all of the Caldecott winner books. We weren't able to read all of them since we couldn't find them all but we got a good chunk of them read. My goal is to make avid readers out of all of my kids...so far it is working! I literally just added about 30 chapter books to my bookshelf for my 9, 10 and 13 year old to read this year to go along with our school...and that doesn't include what I already had!

This year I have actually done more personal reading than I normally due. I think it has been due to covid and just a bit more time on my hands. I prefer non-fiction books.

Buying books is one of my favorite things...especially children's books.

 

I keep a digital journal (Day One) which has a tagging function. So now, whenever, I come across a book I think I'd like to read someday, I make an entry about it, sometimes including an image of the book cover, and I tag it "wanttoread." Now I can use that as a search term, pulling up all those entries, kind of like a list, whenever I'm searching for my next book.

p.s. Thank you for running the TLP book club!

edited to add: I meant to respond more directly to the quote. I used to feel discouraged by the fact there are too many books to possibly read them all. I've kind of accepted it now though.