I read a lot

[snowshoes]

Howdy all, My name is snowshoes. I picked that name because my first choice was already taken and I couldn't think of anything else off the top of my head. I'm a 56 year old man. Father of 8 grown up kids. Born and raised in Toronto Ontario Camada. I have lived my whole life in and around the great lakes in Ontario. I travel extensively all over North America.
I'm retired now but I have done a lot of different things in my lifetime. Everything from working in a nuclear station to owning a construction business. The one constant in my life is that I have always loved to read. I read 3 to 5 books every week. My wife says that I know more usless information than anyone on the planet. LOL.
I'm looking forward to being here, finding books to read and meeting other folks that love to read as much as I do.

[toni]

Welcome aboard, snowshoes! :wave:
We have some lovely forum members from Canada, as well! So make yourself at home.
:angel:
"I read 3 to 5 books every week" Wow, that's incredible! What sort of books do you usually read?

[snowshoes]

I go through phases in my reading. For the last while I have been reading a lot of romance. Yep that's right,girly books. I love Rosamund Pilichers books and have read all of them over the last year. Meave Binchy I also like and I have read all of hers.
I read many classics and I just tried to read War and peace. I have read it twice before but I just couldn't get into this time. Hemmingway is one of my favs and I reread one of his every once in a while. I have read many classics that were interesting but I didn't enjoy them because I don't like the style. Faulkner, Dickens, Some of Stienbeck I love and some I really don't like.
I read a lot of history and I enjoy that very much. I just read FDR by Conrad Black, published not long before he went to jail. Best FDR biography I have ever read.
I read a lot of general fiction but I'm very picky about it. If it says on the cover,Power,thrilling,3 generations, extreme wealth, betrayal etc. I'm probably not going to read it. A typical book of this type would be The Da Vinci Code, The bourne books and so on. I read those just out of interest of what makes them so successful. I think of this kind of book as "American Bull**** stories" They run hundreds of the same kind of stories in the movies and on the TV.
If I come across a book that has won a major prize I will usually buy it regardless of what kind it is. I've been pretty lucky in this and have really enjoyed quite a few.
I read a lot of biographies of people that I'm interested in.
Ialways enjoying little self published books that someone has written about their life. If I come across one written by a Dr. I always get it.
I like some fantasy though I did not think that Harry Potter deserves the high rating that it's recieved. It in no way compares to "the chronicles of Narnia".
There are lots of other things that I read that defy a catagory. With the amount that I read you would think that I would be a better speller EH. LOL