A GIRL YOU SHOULD DATE - Date a girl who reads...

[Esme nha Maire]

I love books, but can't get on with the electronic readers I've seen so far. I just do not like the user interfaces. Physical books work better for me - though I do see the utility of ebooks in space-saving. I only do any research online because unfortunately it's nigh on unavoidable these days.

I do wish I had a better memory, and could better remember the details of books I've read though. The plus side is that if it's a very long time between reading a book and re-reading it, quite often I'll notice things that I didn't first time around, which can be fun, interesting, and occasionally surprising (can't remember which book it was now, but I do know that I got a quite different story from one book on re-reading it than I did the first time I read it!).

I'm currently reading "Crash into you" by Diana Morland - a roller derby lesbian romance. So far, so good! Generally I like reading about the sciences, science fiction, historical fiction and comedy. I don't think my love of books necessarily makes me more interesting, it's just a side effect of my curiosity, geek streak, and having had large amounts of time to kill at times

Characters and situations in books do live for me - I get lost in them - I can see the worlds of "Known Space" by Larry Niven so clearly, and Darkover by MZB, and Napoleonic times in a history I just re-read as if there. But I'm not terribly knowledgable about literature - it informs me, entertains me, occasionally sparks new ideas, that's about it for me, I'm not terribly scholarly about 'em. :-}

Oh, and that 'Hysterical Literature' link earlier - I think Gemme was right, that young lady may not have been alone in the room! 8-} (chuckle)