Do you read?

Maximus Alexander · 26-01-2016 06:35PM

ScumLord wrote: »

I've had a running day dream about going back in time to Roman times. It started by me imagining I'd be class and advance the Roman empire by a millenia just because I'm from the future, then I realised I don't really know how to do anything. So I've been learning how to make things like soap, steel, how to harness steam power, just in case I end up going back in time. Then it's back to imaginary Rome to see if it works out.

I hope your latin is fluent. That's something that people often neglect when making their time travel plans.

Mesrine65 · 26-01-2016 06:50PM

I always have two books on the go, one for lunchtime at work, one for bedtime at home.

I like the escapism of a book at lunchtime & reading a chapter or two relaxes me before bed.

ScumLord · 26-01-2016 07:01PM

Maximus Alexander wrote: »

I hope your latin is fluent. That's something that people often neglect when making their time travel plans.

It's not, so far it's been a lot of frantic pointing and the assumption I'll look so odd to them that their curiosity will be peaked long enough for me to explain I'm from the future, or some sort of god.

recylingbin · 26-01-2016 07:10PM

Sinice my membership of Irish psychics live was revoked, I've only read pubes intermittently tbh.

mickrock · 27-01-2016 06:11AM

Custardpi wrote: »

The power of the human imagination is boundless when sparked by a good story - why in the last couple of months I have lived the harsh life of a Blasket Islands fisherman, survived (just barely, twas a close run thing) hand to hand combat with a German intellingence officer, eavesdropped on top level meetings of Jihadist terrorists before finally embracing an ancient Sumerian goddess.

With all that activity it's a wonder you even find the time to read.

Graces7 · 27-01-2016 07:18AM

Books have been my passion since the far off days when I learned to read...my comfort and consolation when things are hard, my resource in dark noisy nights, my company in solitude. I knit with a book open on my lap, held open with a clothes peg, Years ago I used to read to a blind lady and she would be knitting a I read aloud so finally we sat there knitting in the sun while I read to her, I cannot afford to buy books and my great and wonderful resource here in Kerry is our AMAZING Mobile Library! You can take as many books as you like, no fines etc, no fees..I catch up with it when I am out shopping and they even carry my heavy bag to the car for me. These dark nights would be terrible else, although I do sometimes get a few books also from charity shops. A late in life passion for thrillers. Not horror. Thrillers are our modern morality dramas. The good guy suffers but the bad guy gets his dues.. and I learn so much from well researched novels. Ditched TV etc decades ago and there is nothing quite like a book on a dark stormy night,, a circle of lamplight, cats curled up alongside, fingers flying through fine yarn,, My passion since five years old..

SafeSurfer · 27-01-2016 12:27PM

I prefer non fiction to fiction. I like history, pilitical and economic books. However I find when I come across something mentioned in the book that interests me I tend to get distracted and Google it and wander off on a research tangent.
Finding the time to read all the books I am interested in is difficult. Especially with kids. Sometimes Google or documentaries are a much more efficient way of learning new things.

Do you read?

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