This forum seems to attract a lot of literate people.
No pics, but I have just about every book from the following authors:
Iris Johanson, Kay Hooper, Catherine Coulter, Tami Hoag, Lisa Gardner, Lisa Jackson, Frank Peretti, John Saul, Dean Koontz.
I LOVE crime drama, suspense/mystery thrillers.
Bookcases? I've got bookcases. Too many to show. In addition, I've got stacks! On my desk, under my desk, beside my desk, beside my bed...
Did I mention that I have a Kindle? It was supposed to solve the stack problem. It is great for pleasure reading but not so great for textbooks and technical books.
Jeff
Is that too many?
Yes, but the statistics (in the US anyway) overall are really sad:
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
Also, a five-year study involving over 90,000 adults found that '21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." ' From wikipedia, Literacy in the United States
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I don't get it...what does this mean? What are you trying to say? (/joking)Yes, but the statistics (in the US anyway) overall are really sad:
1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
Also, a five-year study involving over 90,000 adults found that '21% to 23% of adult Americans were not "able to locate information in text", could not "make low-level inferences using printed materials", and were unable to "integrate easily identifiable pieces of information." ' From wikipedia, Literacy in the United States
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I love reading, but don't keep books, I pass them on to others, or give them to charities.
At the moment almost every day books are turning up for Jeff to review, some of them I read instead or grab first if I like the look of it!![]()
Jo, we need to trade in some of your quark flavors for culinary flavors and the integer and half-integer spins of bosons and fermions for a spin out on the dance floor.A bookcase can tell you a lot about someone.![]()
Over the last 20 or so years I've read all but War and Peace.The BBC did a study over here and came up with something that's since been plastered all over facebook for a while now...
this is from mine:
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
4) Tally your total.
Over the last 20 or so years I've read all but War and Peace.
I'd also add Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, The Road to Serfdom by F.A. Hayek and Mere Christianity and The Screw Tape Letters by C.S. Lewis to the list.
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