Like/love books?

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I used to love reading books sometimes, I still read...just other things but not from books. Their is one specific book that's so special to me that I would love to see & get my hands on, but that'd be impossible.

I've always enjoyed reading a good book since I was a boy.

Now as an adult, my favorite genre of literature are mystery novels.

usually i read about psychology, physic, astronomy or other books related to science, i can also enjoy fiction but i didn't read a lot of novels and usually collect books about science, i really liked harry potter and now i am reading Sherlock Holmes

I've always loved to read, and one of the top reasons I divorced my ex-husband who was a major bully was that he hated my love of reading. I still love reading, and sometimes, there's nothing better than being curled up on the couch with a good book. I pretty much read anything I can get my hands on, both nonfiction and fiction.

I LOVE books. My favorite are normally nonfictional. Although with one exception, thrillers. I tend to stay to long on the chapters in the book. Manly because I research into whatever it is I'm reading about. Usually it's science based or historical and symbolic to creation, much like religion.

What I read has changed over the decades. At this time it is mostly:
> material related to hobby interests; trains, rockets, airplanes, boats
> references and helps for writing - I have a couple sci-fi stories in progress, very, very, slow progress
> topics related to content I want to have in my story
> animals, especially cats and dolphins/porpoises/whales
> occasional Star Trek novels

Used to read much more fiction, primarily sci-fi and fantasy; plus non-fiction world history and military history.
Read pretty much none of that any more.
There is only one of me, my health is a mess, and what I can do in a month is far reduced from what it was a decade ago. Therefore reading things of direct relevance to what I am doing is the priority.

I've been quite a bookworm since before I even learned how to read. It's usually horror, thrillers, fantasy, dystopic, and some comics and manga.
I seldom read nonfiction.

When I was a child, I read voraciously. I loved children's fiction (and still do), and I was very into the Baby-Sitters Club series, Beverly Cleary's books, and Johanna Hurwitz's books. But as I got older, I lost interest in "age-appropriate" fiction. I think why I love children's fiction so much is because it deals with school a lot and issues that are interesting to me. Adult fiction is usually about romance, crimes, etc., and all of this bores me greatly. When I go to book sales, I gravitate towards the children's fiction and the non-fiction.

The majority of what I read nowadays is non-fiction, mainly science, since that is one of my biggest special interests. I am a slow reader now (from my OCD- I was a fast reader as a kid), so I have stacks of science books that I've acquired throughout the years that I've yet to read. I just finished two books on venomous animals, this week I'm going to start a book about parasitic effects on animals' brains, and when that one is done, I'm probably going to read a toxicology textbook I got for Christmas a few years back. What I tend to do is read a lengthy textbook, read some non-fiction novels for a while as a break, and then start another lengthy textbook. My last textbook was a nephrology book that I finished a couple of months ago.

This is exactly why I don't read a lot anymore either! All of the fiction and hat is supposed to be for my age group is not good to me at all. There is way too much drama and romance, and it bores me greatly.^^^^^^^

There's lots to read that doesn't involve romance or drama....

I read mainly fantasy as a kid, which gradually branched off into sci-fi. I' ve read the entire Harry Potter series, and I thought it was pretty good. Last year I read a "fanfiction" of harry potter written by a neuroscientist. It's called Harry Potter: Methods of Rationality. It's available free on ebook and audiobook as the author has no rights. I highly recommend it.

^^ Kraftie, true that there are many books that aren't romance or drama, but they still often contain elements of it. I never read romance or drama because I have zilch interest in it, but it's still part of plenty of thrillers and dystopic books I've read. What I do is just skim those boring parts and focus on the good stuff (the exciting plots).

Yeah, but they are either extremely boring or contain something else I don't like/want to read about.

I read a lot and I like just about everything. My favorites would have to be YA literature, Manga, and graphic novels/comic books.

I become thoroughly depressed if I don't have books to read on a daily basis. I'll read almost anything, though my tastes in fiction have become narrower since I became an adult. Sci-fi is the most engaging genre for me, but when it comes to nonfiction, any topic satisfies me, as long as the book itself is well paced. I only recently rediscovered nonfiction, though. When I was a little kid, a friend of my mom's gave us an encyclopedia set from the 70's or 80's, and I fell in love with it. My mom tossed the set (objectionable material ), but I kept up the reading for a while. I read my older siblings' textbooks on economics, government, and world history. Eventually, I ran out of material, and I had no access to a library or the internet, so I stopped reading until I was a teen.

I always need a book! Fiction-wise I enjoy a broad variety but especially medieval fantasy, crime and science fiction. Non-fiction wise, I like books focusing on biology, geography and environmental science.