I read to much.. hard to say how many books in a day as it depends on the length of the book. Some books are 200 pages and some in excess of 10000 pages. Amazon tracks 450 to 600 a year. But i read a lot outside their system with most of those being longer formats..
Probably more accurate would be to say i read about a 1000 pages a day.
And i have since maybe age 7
Convincing the librarian at age 8 or 9 that i really was reading the 10 to 20 books i checked out eack week was interesting to say the least. Given how much we moved i had that conversation at least annually. Sometimes at multiple available libraries where we would currently live, as well as at the school library.
My addictive reasing has been in maybe equal parts a curse and blessing. My stated excuse has been that at least it wasnt drugs and alcohol.
I mainly read research anymore. I'm in the middle of *The Cutting-off Way,* a book about Native American warfare around the time of the French and Indian War and the American War for Independence. For fiction, I tend to read my friend's books. They're more talented than me, and I get a ripping good read and the chance to analyze their work. 🙂
I think reading both is important. As you say, you can learn from fiction. I tend to keep my fiction reading contra to whatever I'm writing, lest I start picking up bits and unconsciously including them into whatever story I'm building. Rather like a magpie collecting shiny objects! Which, come to think of it, is what I do with non-fiction as well, in a way.
Right you are about this: "...you can learn from fiction." When I was in high school in New Orleans I was caught with a James Bond paperback and one of the Christian Brother's ( a male nun, so to speak, but good men all) told me I was wasting my time, that I should read real literature. Sorry, but what can compete with John Carter of Mars, James Bond, or Tarzan at 16?
"My husband and I often read while sitting down to a meal together, and lest you think that unromantic, reading on your phone frees up your other hand to hold onto your spouse while you both silently enjoy one another"
That's really a lovely picture. Probably needs to be used in a story somewhere ...
I've five books open right now, three paper and two .epubs, four of which are fiction. I usually have a few internet rabbit holes I'm diving down as well.
One such is hopping around finding what, why and how Nostr is.
I feared that I would die when the to-be-read pile toppled and crushed me in my sleep. Since having to abandon most of our library we still read every day, but our range is more limited. So many things from Stephen J. Gould's columns to small press simply aren't available as ebooks.
I try to stay physically busy during daytime to remain fit (alive) in old age. I manage to get 2-3 hours of reading done when I lie down in bed at the end of a long day, reading until I can't keep my eyes open or my comprehension falls off. My eyes are the weak link in my reading. They get fatigued so easily.
I read to much.. hard to say how many books in a day as it depends on the length of the book. Some books are 200 pages and some in excess of 10000 pages. Amazon tracks 450 to 600 a year. But i read a lot outside their system with most of those being longer formats..
Probably more accurate would be to say i read about a 1000 pages a day.
And i have since maybe age 7
Convincing the librarian at age 8 or 9 that i really was reading the 10 to 20 books i checked out eack week was interesting to say the least. Given how much we moved i had that conversation at least annually. Sometimes at multiple available libraries where we would currently live, as well as at the school library.
My addictive reasing has been in maybe equal parts a curse and blessing. My stated excuse has been that at least it wasnt drugs and alcohol.
I mainly read research anymore. I'm in the middle of *The Cutting-off Way,* a book about Native American warfare around the time of the French and Indian War and the American War for Independence. For fiction, I tend to read my friend's books. They're more talented than me, and I get a ripping good read and the chance to analyze their work. 🙂
I think reading both is important. As you say, you can learn from fiction. I tend to keep my fiction reading contra to whatever I'm writing, lest I start picking up bits and unconsciously including them into whatever story I'm building. Rather like a magpie collecting shiny objects! Which, come to think of it, is what I do with non-fiction as well, in a way.
Right you are about this: "...you can learn from fiction." When I was in high school in New Orleans I was caught with a James Bond paperback and one of the Christian Brother's ( a male nun, so to speak, but good men all) told me I was wasting my time, that I should read real literature. Sorry, but what can compete with John Carter of Mars, James Bond, or Tarzan at 16?
"My husband and I often read while sitting down to a meal together, and lest you think that unromantic, reading on your phone frees up your other hand to hold onto your spouse while you both silently enjoy one another"
That's really a lovely picture. Probably needs to be used in a story somewhere ...
There was a band called 'The Catherine Wheel'
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Wheel_(band)
I have one of their albums and I always wondered where they got that name from.
I've five books open right now, three paper and two .epubs, four of which are fiction. I usually have a few internet rabbit holes I'm diving down as well.
One such is hopping around finding what, why and how Nostr is.
I feared that I would die when the to-be-read pile toppled and crushed me in my sleep. Since having to abandon most of our library we still read every day, but our range is more limited. So many things from Stephen J. Gould's columns to small press simply aren't available as ebooks.
I try to stay physically busy during daytime to remain fit (alive) in old age. I manage to get 2-3 hours of reading done when I lie down in bed at the end of a long day, reading until I can't keep my eyes open or my comprehension falls off. My eyes are the weak link in my reading. They get fatigued so easily.