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Among other things May celebrates Reading is Fun Week, sponsored by Reading is Fundamental to highlight the joy of reading and remind everyone that reading can be and is fun. Read a book today. See my full May Events Calendar As always I try to find the events that are familiar to people and some not so much.

Some people read to live, in other words, read only the necessary things. I on the other hand, am a confirmed bookaholic, so much so that I actually have a monthly book budget How often do you read for pleasure?

Hey Shirley, romance is a really good thing. Enough of it and you can write your own book

I don't have as much time to read for pleasure as I used to but now I do audio books. I love them! I find I listen to books I might not read and they turn out to be really good. For reading actual books, I mostly stuck to mysteries but for audio I've listened to all kinds of books.

I walk my dogs every day and even sometimes when I'm doing housework, I can listen to a book, even though I don't have time to sit down and read one.

HealthyMom62, I enjoy audio books but the times I have tried I have been still, I have learned that I can't listen to audio books while sitting still because I fall asleep (it takes forever going back for do overs, etc.) Recently I bought several from my library surplus table, and will listen to them when I am active. You have a great idea--I hope it works for me.

My partner and I go through spouts. We have read books to each other (taking turns reading out loud and picking the book). I would say in the last 5 months we have read 2 or 3 books together. It has been at a stall lately because I keep falling sleep through her old romance novels lol. I like detective, mystery, suspense stories. I really need to step up, bite the bullet and try harder at staying awake through her books.

GoodMorningSunshine, do you two like J. D. Robb novels? If you are not familiar, that is Nora Roberts writing her In Death series. You get a bit of everything in this series. I am addicted to these characters as much I am to those in the television program The Closer. Not so much the couples as the super back stories that comes with them.

Actually Vannie, my mom loved Nora Roberts so I know I should have some books by her, but no I have not read them. I will have to check it out. I like James Patterson, Cathrine Coulter etc. For some strange reason I also like Paul Bowels among many others.

Hello everyone,
I am always always reading and always always have about three to five books on the go. I always always have a book in my handbag in case I get caught in a queue (at the bank, buying movie tickets, voting, even at the supermarket) It's like breathing for me, I can't do without my daily fix and lots of it! Read most things except horror and modern political fiction and Harry Potter style stuff. I make sure I re-read at least one classical author every two months or so. I love D H Lawrence, Dickens, Victor Hugo, the Russians and even Shakespeare (too many others to mention) so I am usually spoilt as the library has lots of those on the shelves. Find that biographies are very interesting too.

My daily thoughts include how privileged I am to have such freedom to read what I like! Perish the thought that I do not find some time to read, I would really be disappointed.

I could not believe my ears when I went to a hairdresser in a holiday town once who said she had never read a book. Never. When I asked how she had got through school, she said she'd asked her friends in her class to tell her the story or watched the movie/video or at a real push, followedd the study guide but that she found reading a boring chore. Oh my. It was then that I really felt lucky. I still do.
Cheers!