I've been reading all my life. When I was young it was easy - there was so much to discover about the world and about books. These days I find it harder to get interested, yet a good book gives me enormous satisfaction. So I'm hoping that reading along with others will help me to focus; I've just been discovering via an online course that exchanging views with others is very rewarding.
I read good books. By which I mean, what's loosely called literary fiction - but I'm choosy within that. I have had sci-fi phases, and I read the occasional detective, mostly when I'm on aeroplanes.
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Life long reader, needs encouragement
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Re: Life long reader, needs encouragement
hi Chris27,
Welcome to Booktalk!!
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Re: Life long reader, needs encouragement
Yes I also find it more rewarding to discuss books as I read them. (It also slows me down, so the books last longer)
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Re: Life long reader, needs encouragement
Welcome, so glad you found your way to BT! I am also a lifelong reader and finding it harder and harder to get going with a book. I've taken to reading short stories. If I encounter a bad one, it does not feel like such a waste - I've hardly invested any time in the endeavor. Alice Munro (Too Much Happiness) is a favorite and William Trevor can go on that list too. There are two books of fiction that are collections of short stories that intersect one another to form a sort of novel when read altogether.
Let the Great World Spin by Colum Mccann and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
Let the Great World Spin by Colum Mccann and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout