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For me the access to books is as important as music. Some of my favourite books took me to places I had never considered. Stranger in a strange land, I robot, sapiens, nemesis and many many more. You?

When I was 10, I started reading Sven Hassel books. They were exceptionally sweary, but my Dad liked war films and felt no need for a closer inspection. After I went through the supply in North Weald library, he started bringing them home for me. I think Porta and Tiny's inspiration possibly took me to the headmaster's office once, when I went through an all too brief period of being able to fart loudly, on demand, in assembly and lessons. The first 'proper' book I chose to read (not selected for me by the English teacher) was 'The Executioner's Song' by Norman Mailer.

I do love reading but books are just a little way behind music, for me, in terms of emotional connection, I think. This is the one I'm on, now...

When I was about a similar age my father would bring home books for me to read, White fang possibly the first I remember? Followed by the complete works of Dickens. Almost impossible to read at that age but I later found them illuminating. Currently enthralled by Joe Nesbo.

I always have at least one book on the go, well, one "Nook" or one "Kindle," anyway. After my years of commuting to one place or another I always had a book for the train, and for quiet moments at work. In my last full-time job somebody actually asked me, in the staff canteen one lunchtime, "How come you've always got your head stuck in a book?" The answer I gave him was that "All the time I'm in here - pointing to the book - I'm not in here," looking around the canteen. I think he understood.

These days, to be honest, I find myself as happy reading in silence as I do listening to music, but of course, I live alone, and silence is actually a possibility for me.

Recently read 'Killing Commendatore' by Haruki Murakami.

One of his very best that transports you to a surreal mystery in the countryside of Japan.

Highly recommended.

I'm still waiting for my local libraries to properly open again. Maybe it will happen in the summer...

I'm two thirds of the way through the CCNA 200-301 Official Cert Guide Volume 1.

It's nice to mix up fiction and non-fiction. And to add in some self improvement books now and again too.

None of my children like reading. It's not something I'd force on them. I can't understand why they don't enjoy the process of reading. And they don't understand how I can sit down and be entertained by a book.
I suppose it's a different generation now. And thinking about it, there were plenty of kids in my year at school that weren't into reading.
My non-book-loving daughter has - after a lot of indecsion - decided to do English Lit A-Level.

In recent years my reading has centered upon autobiagraphies and biogrophies, mainly concerning rock. The quality varies a lot and often more can be gained between the lines. Currently reading a book on fishing I had for Christmas.