Different from the What are you reading thread, this is abt what you like – or need to read. Maybe you can tell as well how you read=). As a young person, I read what we had in the home library wc wasn’t grand (like encyclopedia on Lands and Peoples, etc), school books and library books. Sometimes older siblings’ readings, like for a time I got into Mills and Boons pocketbooks an older sister was reading. But I did not stay there long, so after a lazy summer w/ variations of romantic themes, I searched elsewhere.
When I was given my personal Bible (NT only at first), it was very precious, although I did not understand very much. I just loved to read a little each day, until I could the OT as well. As a poor speaker, I’d sometimes read portions out loud, and I’m glad oral reading of some other materials helped me learn and practice pronunciation, esp when I was patient enough to get dictionary to check how to say words not familiar. Love to read, but prefer shorter materials to the novels sibs sometimes read, or were reading assignments in school. My family was (then, and now as well) not very poetic folks, so you know I cannot read that much poetry either, except when I have time to read those in available collections, or magazines.
I have to read job or work requirements, devotionals, children’s story books too. I have turned more to short stories, biographies, mostly nonfiction for personal choices, for we do not always have the luxury of time, and much prefer reading hard copy to online (but wc isnt always possible). Ok, I hope people share specific titles and authors, esp if they found these educational, edifying and helpful for them and others, will you?
Ah, I also like to read small or short stuff, like the time during the day, news, OR’s, what the children have pulled out from the grocery shelves and into our pushcart, time issued and duplicate items punched in, for example. Manuals, product labels like the amt of sugar in a serving size, etc., medical literature from purchased med wc can sometimes be interesting, and street signs and names of establishments passed by. I think I've retained the habit of saying slightly out loud kilometer posts for the children when we travel, and signs like Welcome to ---! Letters, bulletin board posts like a coming exhibit wc my sons say they hardly notice nor care about=(. Hymnals and music sheets also, even if I don’t know the songs, the lyrics have me pondering… And now Cc posts when time permits=), among others, often in snatches of time.
When I was given my personal Bible (NT only at first), it was very precious, although I did not understand very much. I just loved to read a little each day, until I could the OT as well. As a poor speaker, I’d sometimes read portions out loud, and I’m glad oral reading of some other materials helped me learn and practice pronunciation, esp when I was patient enough to get dictionary to check how to say words not familiar. Love to read, but prefer shorter materials to the novels sibs sometimes read, or were reading assignments in school. My family was (then, and now as well) not very poetic folks, so you know I cannot read that much poetry either, except when I have time to read those in available collections, or magazines.
I have to read job or work requirements, devotionals, children’s story books too. I have turned more to short stories, biographies, mostly nonfiction for personal choices, for we do not always have the luxury of time, and much prefer reading hard copy to online (but wc isnt always possible). Ok, I hope people share specific titles and authors, esp if they found these educational, edifying and helpful for them and others, will you?
Ah, I also like to read small or short stuff, like the time during the day, news, OR’s, what the children have pulled out from the grocery shelves and into our pushcart, time issued and duplicate items punched in, for example. Manuals, product labels like the amt of sugar in a serving size, etc., medical literature from purchased med wc can sometimes be interesting, and street signs and names of establishments passed by. I think I've retained the habit of saying slightly out loud kilometer posts for the children when we travel, and signs like Welcome to ---! Letters, bulletin board posts like a coming exhibit wc my sons say they hardly notice nor care about=(. Hymnals and music sheets also, even if I don’t know the songs, the lyrics have me pondering… And now Cc posts when time permits=), among others, often in snatches of time.
