What's on your nightstand?

[Ozme52]

I'm curious, based on 10 being 'life changing' per the original question... how some of these tens changed your lives?

Not quibbling... just wondering how much some of your lives were changed by what you read.

[J-Go]

I'm curious, based on 10 being 'life changing' per the original question... how some of these tens changed your lives?

Not quibbling... just wondering how much some of your lives were changed by what you read.

Kinda have to agree with you Oz, I should have stated the rating a bit different with 1) “why am I reading this” and 10) “great can’t put it down”.
I will say I’m a big believer in picking books off the shelf that “call you”. It may sound odd but it's been one of those years for me, every book I have picked up hit the mark say a 6 to 10 rating. For the most part these have been spiritual books. I don't know if any of them changed my life by themselves but on a whole I'm looking at the world differently!

[Playfulsub]

I'm curious, based on 10 being 'life changing' per the original question... how some of these tens changed your lives?

Not quibbling... just wondering how much some of your lives were changed by what you read.

I only have a handful of books I rate a 10. These are the only books I would ever read a second time. For me, a book rated 10 will have a language all its own. It will make me think. It will make me read passages three and four times just because it's a pleasure to read aloud. It will give me an "A HA" moment in the middle or the end. It will leave me breathless and unwilling to to pick up start another book until I've fully savored it.

[Ozme52]

I only have a handful of books I rate a 10. These are the only books I would ever read a second time. For me, a book rated 10 will have a language all its own. It will make me think. It will make me read passages three and four times just because it's a pleasure to read aloud. It will give me an "A HA" moment in the middle or the end. It will leave me breathless and unwilling to to pick up start another book until I've fully savored it.

I envy that. I read voraciously and absorb the thoughts in huge hunks. It's very rare that I take the time to savor the individual words... but then there are very few 'aha' moments in what I choose to read as entertainment.

Then again, I think I take all the ideas and reformulate them to my own needs. They all sit there as background to my ponderings.

But I do have an affinity for irony... and that rare bit of laugh-out-loud humor you occassionally find within.

[Playfulsub]

I envy that. I read voraciously and absorb the thoughts in huge hunks. It's very rare that I take the time to savor the individual words... but then there are very few 'aha' moments in what I choose to read as entertainment.

Then again, I think I take all the ideas and reformulate them to my own needs. They all sit there as background to my ponderings.

But I do have an affinity for irony... and that rare bit of laugh-out-loud humor you occassionally find within.

I was an English lit major, I had to learn to savor words. Also, I write as voraciously as I read. Reading well written literature as a writer gives one a new perspective, as well as something to strive for.

I've laughed out loud at things you've said more than once.