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My husband and I both love reading. We’ve been avid readers since we were tykes, and I suppose it was a natural thing that we’d somehow find each other, get married, and stay married while maintaining several different bookshelves these past (almost) fifty years. We like browsing book stores – if a brick-and-mortar version can be found – and we absolutely love book sales, because they combine our two favorite activities—reading and saving money.
Barnes & Noble is a great place for a book date and we know where they can be found, gas at nearly $5.00/gallon be damned.
Like many bookaholics, we already own more books than we will ever read, even if we live to be 157 (our combined ages). Since we’re now retired, the piles do not lessen, they grow. We have more time to read, but we also have more time to shop. Further, we pass around books among other retirees who are also not spendy. My husband thinks nothing of spending several bucks for novels that show promise via a tantalizing cover and jaunty description suggesting a power-and-politics theme.
I’m a mystery devotee and have favorite authors I follow without end.
Here’s a blast from the past, a post I wrote in 2013, when I learned the truth of why I devour mystery books: https://www.pjcolando.com/mystery-solved/
Among the framed writers to whom I’m novelly devoted are the following: Baron Birtcher, James Lee Burke, Robert Crais, Janet Evanovitch, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Meg Gardner, Sue Grafton, Joe Ide, Jonathn Kellerman, Marcia Muller, and John Sanford. That is, I’ll read every novel in their series – and have – though some entries are more worthy than others.
There are few authors on which my husband and I agree. For example, he binge-read Tom Clancy, but I could not – too technical and detail-oriented for me. This fact is what adds to the massiveness of our over-filled bookshelves. Thank goodness we have a beacoup bookcases, disposable income, and the shared affinity for books.
Crime rather than romance, prefer villains to be caught and punished, current favourite stil Lindsey Davis’s Ancient Romans. Marcus Didius Falco, and his
adopted and blue-eyed British daughter, Flavia Albia
Latest, There will be Bodies includes elder abuse, and a body in Pompeii,
Vesuvius innocent
Thanks for sharing, Esther. I hadn’t heard of any of those books.
it’s great that your husband and you share a love of reading. My late husband and I did too, though he exclusively read nonfiction. I like fiction better.
Thanks for reading my blog and sorry you’ve lost your husband, a reminder to cherish mine
We finally had to purge our books a few years ago and got it down to six bookcases.
Five bucks a gallon? My wife just paid two-fifty yesterday.
The gas price in CA is worth the price of near-constant sunshine, but $2.50 would be a gift!
I’m also an avid reader. My 4 bookcases are full to bursting, and I try not to buy more than I can stuff in them. So, periodically I clean up space for new favorites. It is a painful process to get rid of the old friends.
My favorite genres are speculative fiction and romance. I have very few books that don’t belong in one of these 2 broad categories.
I’ll bet an avid reading history is common among us writers. It’s a great hobby, isn’t it?