How many books have you read during lockdown?

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I have only read 4. On my 5th now.
Normally only read whilst in in the bath. But been too busy to read doing odd jobs.
I only read Lee Child’s type and WW2 escape stories. What’s you poison?
 
Nearly finished the fifth volume of Clive James autobiography, plus four other books so I'm on the ninth book at present.
 
None, library is shut.
 
used to be that i couldn't put a book down until i'd finished it, wilbur smith being a particular favourite author, they require a long, long session though, but since this pandemic started have spent far too long every day on here instead so i feel that i'm still connected to real people to concentrate on anything else..

10 weeks at home alone not seeing a friendly face in the outside world is starting to wear just a little bit thin........

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I've read 3 books on Kindle over the last 2 days :) - all a series od murder mysteries and complete trash!

Over the lockdown I am reading about two every three days, mostly at night before I go to sleep and again when I am awake during the night - some serious, some trashy novels.
 
dryad said:
wilbur smith being a particular favourite author,
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Used to love Wilbur Smith and read much of his work, he must be pushing 90 now and I don't think he's written a book since 2009 (Assegai) His publisher releases a book each year with Wilburs name on it, but they are awful comic book heroes and villains and sex scenes that were never Wilbur's style.

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Just finished rereading my collection of Titanic Conspiracy books. Imo the most believable conspiracy of them all.
 
None, haven't had time, too busy, this retirement thing doesn't leave me with much time to spare.
As I'm dyslexic reading books for me is hard work, so very rarely read a book and certainly not novels.
 
Jim said:
Used to love Wilbur Smith and read much of his work, he must be pushing 90 now and I don't think he's written a book since 2009 (Assegai) His publisher releases a book each year with Wilburs name on it, but they are awful comic book heroes and villains and sex scenes that were never Wilbur's style.
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the later books could maybe be influenced by his very much younger wife (nearly 40 years younger), he is quoted as saying a few years back that a healthy mind makes a healthy body and his wife insisted that he take plenty of exercise with her.......don't think he said what type though..;)

edit, i do agree though, his earlier books were far better..
 
I never did read many books until the lockdown started. Now I have a kindle and read every day and every night when not able to sleep, it has helped me to keep calm and cope with things.
 
I started to read the trilogy “ The theory of everything” by Mike Campbell. Still on book one. It’s a complex reading and takes full concentration for my brain. Getting stuck in work projects, doesn’t help with my progress.

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I am on my 3rd, tend to read at breakfast, current book called The Spy and Traitor by Ben Mcyntyre, an account of Russian KGB officer who freely volunteered information to MI6. Very interesting, he writes some good books about similar themes. Reading to the Dream. SMUDGER55
 
I have discovered Bruno chief of police books by Martin Walker. Set in the dordogne so getting my French fix from these instead of a trip at Easter. They get a bit samey but I'm hooked at the moment. There is food, wine, countryside descriptions and of course some crime.
 
Two to three a week via the LIBBY app. Anything and everything. Eclectic ?
 
Puddleduck said:
I've read 3 books on Kindle over the last 2 days :) - all a series od murder mysteries and complete trash!

Over the lockdown I am reading about two every three days, mostly at night before I go to sleep and again when I am awake during the night - some serious, some trashy novels.
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Snap or should I say quack. :ROFLMAO:
 
We spend the winter buying books in charity shops to take with us France. (We use the local, community run, library for winter reading).

Our six month supply of books is more than half depleted already so that works out at about one book every two days, fiction and non-fiction

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I don't think my reading habits have changed much as I'm still keeping busy during the day. I usually have a couple of books on the go but I seem to be down to one at the moment. I'm about a third of the way through Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. Published around 1904 it is an extraordinary story and the language isn't dated at all. Childers was an extraordinary character too, gun runner and subsequently shot by firing squad in Ireland.
 
Loads, Ive even managed to crack the case of my kindle though hard usage. Mind you it was one of the originals so have splashed out on an oasis 3 with 32Gb coming Friday.
 
4 in the past week. A couple of hours each afternoon sitting in the garden, reading, listening to the birds.

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both SWMBO and i read every day without fail. i have been known to have 2 and sometimes 3 books on the go at the same time
 
Another Wilbur Smith fan... Loved his Courtney family saga...

Favourite.. The Burning Shore.

Favourite author, Gerald Seymour.
 
13 , think I have slowed down a bit on the reading in lockdown , my info shows I have read 49 books this year.
 
I read a couple most weeks normally , I am probably reading a bit more than usual. I like a nice psychological thriller for fun, some historical novels based on fact to try and help me understand things like Partition in India, the Korean war and the Vietnam war as well as non fiction versions but they can get a bit dry.
I hate science fiction and there’s a few things like romantic stuff that’s boring. I loved Graham Norton’s two novels. I love my kindle.

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