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Right you are.

If the wall that you can't see in this room is filled with books, I could move in and be very happy.

Decades ago I was working in a window company, we made new ones and replaced customers' old ones. I once saw an apartment where every square inch of walls were covered with bookshelves. Behind the wall, the next apartment had its walls covered with green plants. I wonder if these two ever met. It would have been a match made in heaven.

Yeah definitely! would depend on the books though.

How much of a bookworm are you, Moomin? I'm a bookworm with rather particular sense, myself. I devour the interesting books, and can't get through the boring ones (which of course is a matter of subjectivity).

Innocent snapshot.

The Dia De La Muerta tequila bottles are so unique!

My dad always said I would read the back of a Cornflakes packet if that was all that was available.

Seriously though, I did used to read anything, and keeping my nose stuck in a book was a great way to avoid interaction with people. I read all the time.

Now I am a bit more picky. If I'm not actually enjoying a book I will give up on it, which was something that I could never do before. Now I figure there are so many books in the world, that I just as well give something up if I'm not enjoying it, and read something that I like instead.

I haven't read much in the last year or so, as I have been really caught up in my language study, but now I'm at the happy place where I can read a book in Italian and enjoy it, while still learning lots of new words. It's the best of both worlds.

I'm going to try reading some childrens books in French soon, as I think I'm nearly ready for that. The first few are always really hard though, which means it is not enjoyable.

I tried one book in Finnish but I'm really not up to it. I need to do some more study before I try again.

@Krabo - those miniature bottles look like a lot of effort for not a lot of reward.

Replies like this one make me wish I was a Californian.

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Er det sant at det regner i Bergen 300 dager i året?

Some years ago I actually read the instructions on a glue bottle Seriously. It was the only thing there to read, and I managed to read it enough times to memorize it for a while.

Ever since I learned to read, I have always been reading. I have read somewhat less after the net started to take up more of my time, but I still read a lot.
I was always reading up to 2006. Then my dog started getting older and I began feeling guilty about spending time reading instead of spending his last time with him. So I read less and spent more time with him (and would not have it different). After he passed, I had a somewhat hard time getting into them again, but slowly I picked it up again. But although I still read a lot (more than most people), I read more before the net became a big part of my life. Between my different interests (mostly reading, playing games, net surfing and tending to my collections, the days fly, and I don’t have time to do half of what I want.
I never used to read to avoid interaction, I read because I wanted to. It was only in my early adult life that I realized that it helped to read in public to be left alone. It was about the same time I started to wear mP3 for the same reason.

As a child I would have fave books and series, but I always gave them a try, but even then I couldn’t get through books I found boring. Now I’m more particular about genres. And I still can’t get through the snoozes, I just give up on them when I realize it’s one of those. I usually give them a second chance though, because I have discovered that sometimes I won’t feel like reading a book, but the same book can thrill me when I’m in the mood for it. Example:
I was given a gift set of the 4 Harry Potter books (there were only four when that set came out). I started the first one, but couldn’t get into it. Then I watched the movie and thought it was good. I tried the book again and rushed through all 4 in no time. I have no idea why I didn’t like it the first time, HP is excellent and the first 4 in particular.

Yeah, it’s really hard starting to read in another language. For years the only things I read in English was the short texts we had in school, and the occasional lyrics for a song.
It wasn’t until I was 18 I tried to read a book in English. I started off with The Andromeda Strain, but there were so many words I didn’t know, and I gave up on it. A year later I tried one of the Babylon 5 books. I was obsessed with the TV series. The book I picked was one of the thickest and sort of hard (for my level). I spent months getting through it and it felt like I read more in the dictionary than I did the book. It was really slow going, and I only continued because the book hooked me. (aspie obsessions FTW! )
Now I generally read English books as if they were in Norwegian. And thank heavens for that; there are so few books, and especially among those I’m interested in, that are translated. I’d go nuts if I only had Norwegian books available. Same for movies and games really.

A pro pos nothing, saw this one yesterday, and liked it:

Nei, det er en liten overdrivelse. Det regner ca 67% av tida i Bergen.
Gjennomsnittlig får Bergen 2250 mm nedbør per år, til sammenligning har Oslo 763 mm, Kristiansand 1380 mm, Stavanger 1250 mm, Trondheim 895, og Tromsø 1031.
I 2012 hadde Bergen 19 dager sol, 260 dager regn.

^ Takk for denne informasjonen. Jeg tenkte at det må være overdrivelse.

Bare hyggelig
Det må jo være grenser for hvor mye nedbør én by skal ha! Men vi sier her at det alltid regner i Bergen, hvilket åpenbart ikke er sant. Vi sier det samme om England.

Skilpadde, know some.

I admire your English which clearly surpasses mine. If I didn't know you're a Norwegian, I would have said this lady is from the New York City.

Wow, thank you so much, Krabo! That's very nice to hear. I'm glad you guys will never hear me speak though. My pronunciation isn't very good, and my writing far surpasses my speech.

I think your English is pretty good too, and so is what little I've seen of your Norwegian. Where did you pick up so much Norwegian any way? I thought Finns were more likely to know Swedish?