For my Reading Pleasure

I love to read!  Always have and hope to continue for many years to come.  My sons are readers also and for many years some of us have kept track of the books we've read through the year.  I'm not a speed reader or a skimmer... I just plod along page by page...

At this point in my life I read only for the momentary enjoyment of it.  I don't read to retain what I have read.  My brain is suffering from information overload already, so if I tried to remember everything I read, my brain would collapse!  Consequently, since I don't have to take a test on what I have read, I can read many more books!  I usually have several books going at one time; one to read at my flea market shop, and generally a couple at home.  One of my spaces at the flea market is a book shop.  I have about 3000 books, so I have an endless supply of reading material!

I read fiction for the most part.  I enjoy murder and mayhem; spy novels, adventure, some historical fiction.  Favorite authors include James Patterson, Patricia Cornwell, James Grisham, Robert Ludlum, David Baldacci and others.  I have also read many of the classic novels that are on that type of reading list, including the classic sci-fi novels.

So far this year, I have read about 28 books.  Because business has been slow at my flea market shop, it has given me more time to read.  Here is a listing of the books I have read so far this year:

1. The Borgia Bride ~ jeanne kalogridis
2. An Occasion of Sin ~ andrew m. greeley
3. The Little Black Cat Book ~ david taylor
4. A Good Woman ~ danielle steel
5. The Dome ~ stephen king
6. Mother of Pearl ~ melinda haynes
7. Step on a Crack ~ james patterson
8. Another City, Not My Own ~ dominick dunne
9. Scarpetta ~ patricia cornwell
10. True Blue ~ david baldacci
11. Paradise ~ toni morrison
12. Forever ~ pete hamill
13. The Hot Zone ~ richard preston
14. The Prometheus Deception ~ robert ludlum
15. Fire and Ice ~ j. a. jance
16. The Priest's Graveyard ~ ted dekker
17. The Scarpetta Factor ~ patricia cornwell
18. The Gunslinger/The Tower ~ stephen king
19. Broken Wings ~ john douglas and mark olshaker
20. Five People You Meet in Heaven ~ mitch albom
21. White Smoke ~ andrew m. greeley
22. The Venetian Betrayal ~ steve berry
23. Captains Courageous ~ rudyard kipling
24. Digital Fortress ~ dan brown
25. Tick Tock ~ james patterson and michael ledwidge
26. Islands ~ anne rivers siddons
27. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter ~ carson mccullers
28. Book of the Dead ~ patricia cornwell

The best book I have read all year is "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter"... an oldie but goodie!  Don't miss out on that one, if you have a chance to read it.  And be sure to read, "Cry, the Beloved Country" by alan paton which I read last year.

Some years I get beyond fiction and read biographies and history and some religious books.  They take more effort since one can't read those mindlessly as one can with fiction.  Anyhow, I enjoy what I read... and that's what counts!


 ~ "Reading" by Alverto Pisa (1854-1936)