Book Talk

I am a reader.

Unfortunately I don't make time for a lot of it.

I read, some nights, when I get into bed until I fall asleep.

Which is pretty quick.

 

I'm hoping to do more reading this year.

I already know I'm going to be nose to the grindstone-crazy busy this year.

But, I'm going to allow myself one day a month to just sit and read all day.

 

 

Right now I'm reading Beautiful Ruins.

{I picked it up because I liked the cover.  I do that often.}

I'm liking it.

I've also been listening to The Dark Tower series.

I'm ready to start book four, however, the final book in

The Wheel of Time series was released yesterday- I'll be listening to that first.

 

The Farmboy does a lot of driving, so we have become Audible.com users over the last several years.

This has worked out really well for a couple of reasons.

 

When I'm working on a piece that has requires a lot of handwork, listening to a book partners perfectly with it.

And if it's a collection of pieces with lots of handwork, a book series is even better.

 

The second reason this works for us, me, is I'm strange.

When I read or listen to a story I become completely submerged.

{I've even been known to pick up character traits- which is sometimes confusing- not just for me, but for my family as well ;)}

But really, I get in deep so I don't like anything that is going to depress me and bring me down for days.

{Which is interesting, because my all time favorite book since I was a young girl,

Little Women,

makes me sob soooo hard every time I read it, I can go through a whole box of tissue.}

And that is where the Farmboy comes in.

He'll listen to a book on his drives and tell me whether or not I will like it.

For example, I would really like to read Water for Elephants & A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.

But he told me no.

They are too, what I call, sooty.

So I end up usually sticking with light-hearted stuff and mysteries {which is my favorite} with a sprinkling of fantasy/scifi every once in a while.

I'm a happy ending kinda girl.

 

What about you?  Are you a reader?

What would you recommend?