Does no one read anymore?

I enjoy books by kelley armstrong they are about supernaturals and take you into an exciting otherworld fantasy.
I also enjoy the Alex Cross books by James Patterson, I've read them all.
I find it hard to concentrate since the split but I'm sure I'll have my nose in a book one day soon. x

I have always loved reading but when i discovered his affair and the subsequent trauma that followed I found I couldn't even open a book - for some reason it scared me (as did everything else at the time). I'm so glad i'm not the only one that finds some things have changed. Whilst not being scared anymore - i do find it hard to concentrate for long periods. But thankfully, most things are no longer frightening and I do love my books again!

Next book onj my list - Shack (can't rember author!!!!)

I always used to read before all the troubles. But during the 11 months I was there I couldnt read a line without my mind wandering. Now 2 years after I left, its a different matter. Once you are out of it in your own space without all the stress life settles down. Now I read lots. I am reading Beer and loathing by City Boy. A very good insight into how we got into this finacial mess. C

Funny how some of us couldnt read through all our troubles!

Im another. I probably read 3 or 4 books a week before we separated and for the first year afterwards didnt read at all. I love reading and always did but I think reading also became an escape for me when I was with him.

I getting back there but dont want reading to take over this time.

Next book on my list is The Kite Runner, last years Christmas pressie from my niece and I still havent read it. Funny Ive started to revisit some old favourites, Leon Uris and of course Tolkien (never really went away from those)!

Getting lost in a book is the very best relaxation, and who cares if it is an "escape" from the world for a few hours?

I love reading, and one of my favourite writers is an American crime novelist called James Lee Burke. He writes wonderfully about the Cajun people of Louisiana, and is outright poetic when describing the bayous and wetlands, as well as the more fleshly delights of New Orleans. The hero of his novels is James L Robicheaux, a Cajun, former policeman and recovering alcoholic. The books adhere strictly to the rules of crime writing and make for a very satisfying read. There are around a dozen in the series and it's taken a good few years to read them all. Burke goes from strength to strength. The magic of his writing is that he is capable of delivering a driving, gutsy, really very masculine story at the same time as offering the reader a truly rounded hero figure (I'm in love with Robicheaux...) and descriptions of the natural world second to none.

Ha ha! What a gushing fan I am

sounds interesting live wire.

Tinny - The Kite Runner is an amazing book - it took my breath away - and I read anything from cr*p to great stuff but this one is a doozie, I stopped reading too - and am back - took me about 3 months to get back to reading - (which is total absitnence for me) but had to read light stuff for a while!

A thousand Splendid Suns is his book after the Kite Runner and equally amaxing about afghanie women and the Taliban etc - two books that stand out.

It takes a lot to stand out cos I read so much - so they are really special.

enjoy!
Jo:)

I have not been able to read a book in 18 months. I use to read most evenings but I still cannot concentrate on a book or I fall asleep as soon as I start reading, too many sleepless nights I guess. At the side of my bed I have six books waiting for me to read them so my aim is to start again and keep going until they are all read. Wish me luck.

Poppie x