Who has the time to read anymore?

[Lilith785]

I DO! Hi everybody I'm new here. Just wanted to introduce myself before I started replying and posting. Glad I found this place and others who share my passion for the written word. http://www.dineoxford.com/pics/img/2657/y09w0131xdtc/82(2).gif

[Psycheinaboat]

Welcome Lilith!

[Delta40]

Hi Lilith. I don't read as much as I think I ought. I fall asleep very fast these days too, which hampers my ability to keep at a book, because it is such a relaxing pursuit. This is so silly because if the book calls upon me to give something of myself, I fall asleep too! I keep trying though. I hope to be buried between two oak bookshelves.

[Wilde woman]

Hi Lilith and welcome to the forum!

Don't we all wish we had more time to read. I often find myself cracking open a book when I should be working.

[joseph90ie]

...hey, i'm a fan of the printed word, mostly the newyorker, TLS, and the entertainment parts of my local newspapers. But also novels and the rest, but the committment and concentration they entail become a little harder to give to each year, though I'm only 28. But bitesize info can become so addictive; you can snack away on informative morsels all day, keep your mind stimulated without too much strain or demand. It's like buying those exercise cheats, where you stick on a pack which stimulates your muscles, so the fat electronically evaporates. But I don't think those things ever work. Hey, are you sad Updike's gone? I haven't read his stuff, but I got a small novel of his from the library, 'Of The Farm', which I must settle down to and read. Well, nice to meet you; my name's Declan, from Ireland.

[poet]

HI! joseh90ie, Way back in the 90's when I first started to do a lot of reading, I picked up Updike's Rabbit series and fell in love with them. I will miss his style and wit.

poet

[poet]

Just wanted to say "hello" again. Have been away from the site for quite awhile. Have been reading various novels and I can say that there are a lot of bad writers out there. It amazes me that they can publish a book. Don't know if anyone is acquainted with Jan Karon and her Mitford series but Karon is a gracious and delightful writer and I have enjoyed her Mitford books immensly. Her characters come alive on the page. When I have unusually stressed, I pick up her book and say "I am going to Mitford now." Hope to get back to some of the more serious writers now and post a little more often.

poet

[joseph90ie]

hi Poet, welcome back, I only joined this week myself.

Yes, he'll be missed. I like his criticism, so good-natured, and his vocabulary and phrasing was a bottomless well. I haven't read the rabbit novels, so I must read them.

[seanlol]

Welcome!

[Delta40]

Isn't Lilith the original feminist in the garden of Eden?