Over the last couple of years I have been on a reading binge. Over the last few months I have been peeking my reading. Ok, reading is a lose term being I have been reading physical books, ebooks and listing to audio books.
I use to read a lot when i was young. For one it was an escape from the crapy life I was living as I grew up. We did not have cable or satellite TV and only had a few over the air channels to watch (on a good day with no storms) so I escaped into a lot of books. I read a lot of falsity, sic-fi and crime drama books. As I learned later in life, most were way over my heard. I never read simple hardy boys books and such for my age group.
My collage years and into adult hood I stopped reading for fun. From about 18 to 38 I think I read all of about 10 books, most of were very bad and un-rememberable other then the Harry Potter books (that I started before they got bing and full of them selfs). It was the coming of the iPad that I started to read again, not that I am trying to sell them. I just happened to get one and picked up a ebook and haven’t looked back.
So far in the last two years I have gotten through a nice pile of stuff I have read in the past that I wanted to re-read as well as new stuff. So far I have read/listened (audio books make long drives enjoyable) to:
- Hunger Games trilogy
- The Hobbit
- Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Silmarillion
- Old Man’s War
- The Ghost Brigades
- The Last Colony
- Ender’s Game
- The Forever War
- Starship Troopers
- Snow Crash
On top of that I am currently in the middle of and hope to finish soon:
- Good Omens
- The Color of Magic
I know, that is not an impressive list, but its a start in my book. Between work life and hobbies its a good start. I plan to keep on going, powering through old, classic and new books. Mostly sci-fi and fantasy and such, being that is my taste. no 50 shades of gray for me.
UPDATE: 8/4/2013. I came across the audio book for Dune as something to help pass the time for jury duty (waiting to get picked to a jury). have not been able to put it down and cant wait to pick up the next book the Dune world.
