Puzzle Description:

Reading voraciously, especially a wide variety - fiction, non-fiction, biographies, anthologies. I'm reading the Outlander series. What are you reading?

#1: Claudia (clau_bolson) on Oct 14, 2016 [SPOILER]

OK, this puzzle is a picture of me as a teenager, escaping school bullying and a boring life through books, hundreds of them, all day long. I remember more things that I read than things that actually happened to me.
Now I'm not such a voracious reader but I do read a lot. Mostly detective stories and science fiction, but I like history books as well. At this time I am with "Puzzle for Wantons" by Patrick Quentin.

Yay for books! I love reading!
Excellent image Teresa.

I solved the pony tail first and thought sure it was an elephant. I was trying to imagine what hobby you could do with an elephant.
I just finished reading Tara Road by Maeve Binchy. Now I need to start something else. I've read a couple of articles about Shirley Jackson lately and now I want to re-read The Haunting of Hill House. That would be a good Halloween book.

I enjoy fantasy and mysteries. I am currently reading House Rules by Jodi Picoult. I plan on reading all of her stuff before moving onto another writer. My favorite author of all time is William Shakespeare. I have reread his books over and over. Very cute puzzle.

I have loved reading since I was young. It started with my brothers sports and car magazines and then graduated to books when my mother bought us encyclopedia's. Nice ponytail Teresa. :)

Loved this puzzle. I read a variety of authors. There are sites that will do the searching for you and send you emails of reasonably priced ebooks which I can download to my Kindle. Many are free and some are quite good. If you are looking for some fun and funny reading you may like Jinx Schwartz. https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_4_5?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=jinx+schwartz+hetta+coffey+series&sprefix=jinx+%2Cstripbooks%2C223 They are well written and very entertaining. She has a gift for writing that makes you laugh and wanting more. I am one of her friends on Facebook and every day she finds several really cute and/or funny things to post.

Here is a video she posted which is one of the funniest cat videos I have ever seen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq5K5d3c3W0

I usually read mysteries and paranormal romance and SF.

Totally different - The School of Essential Ingredients by
Erica Bauermeister. The book reminds me of "Like Water for Chocolate", with food triggering memories, healing heartaches, and renewing hope.

This was such a great puzzle. I am into dystopian books (dystopian are books based on a future society that is supposedly perfect). A few series that I have read are "The Hunger Games", "Lord of Scorpion", and "Divergent".

I read every night. Presently reading Sting by Sandra Brown. Mostly read mysteries and only hard cover. I buy them online and then share with my friends. This is a great puzzle Teresa

I am currently in the middle of more books than I have ever been, so your question is timely. Here are the books that I have read, not completed, but plan to complete...just the ones that I've made progress on since summer:

Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life Huguette Clark and...
- Bill Dedman and Paul Clark Newell Jr.

Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think...
- Nicholas Epley

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
- J.K. Rowling

Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Douglas R. Hofstadter

A******s: A Theory
- Aaron James

Illusions II: The Adventures of a Reluctant Student
- Richard Bach

...and a couple of other word puzzle and trivia books. I actually have completed a couple of books along the way. Not sure how I ended up in the middle of so many...partly it's because I read slowly :P

Another good image, fun solve. I'm happiest with this degree of difficulty--not too headache-producing!
Just finished Witness to the Revolution by Clara Bingham--if you're interested in the late 60's, early 70's (anti-war, civil rights, feminist movements) you'll find it fascinating.
Just started reading My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante. I saw an article about it--they apparently just discovered the author's true identity and mentioned how popular the book series is in Italy, so I ordered it. Beginning is promising.
I also like to write and am trying to get my novel published.

I'm currently reading a favorite author, Neal Stephenson. The book is Seveneves, a (typically) long, detailed post- apocalyptic sci-fi (emphasis on the "sci") novel.

History of Israel, John Bright

Alas, I haven't had a chance to read in the past several years. In school I read voraciously, which is how I got a 710 (out of 800) on the Verbal part of the SAT, despite not taking any advanced English classes.

Oh Teresa...you don't know what you have unleashed, asking a librarian what she likes to read!!! I read many types of fiction; mysteries, historical fiction, hard-boiled detective novels, westerns, espionage, the occasional romance, lawyer/trial novels, young adult and even a children's series one in awhile. As for non-fiction, I read gardening and cookery books with the occasional biography thrown in.

I just finished The Flying Circus by Susan Crandall, a historical novel set in the 1920s centering around the beginning years of airplanes and with such dare-devils as wingwalkers!

Over the summer, I read David Baldacci's dystopian young adult series with Vega Jane as the strong, young female lead character.

Robert Gabraith's (J.K. Rowling) 3rd Cormoran Strike detective novel was pretty gruesome but kept me reading.

One of the best books I have read in quite awhile is Kristin Hannah's The Nightingale. It follows two sisters and their families through the occupation of France by the Nazi's during WWII. I think of this book often.

BTW, I have to point out to everyone you are paying taxes for your Library - use it. They have free downloads for your devices, books to listen during your commute and plenty of books on every subject just waiting for you to check them out! Ahhh...you can retire the librarian but you can't take the librarian out of the retiree!

Let's hear it for Libraries and Librarians! And notice the capital L. My kids still go to the library once a week. Great suggestions, Carol. I might try reading The Nightingale.

Thanks to everyone for all the great reading ideas. I love learning what everyone likes to read.

Speaking of France in WWII, I have to recommend All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It's excellent, and won a Pulitzer prize.

That one is on my list, Belita. :-)

Wow! What a nice puzzle, and interesting list of books. I'm reading The Artist's Rule by Chistine Valtners Paintner, Radical Wisdom by Beverly Lanzetta, The Paleo Approach by Sarah Ballantyne, and The Artful Universe expanded by John D. Barrow for nonfiction. They're all fairly challenging for me in different ways, so I keep putting one down and picking up another, then going back to each one for a bit more. Fiction is mostly mysteries, right now oldies by Sarah Paretsky, but also Unacustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri (also a Pulitzer winner but not for this book), which is somewhat sad in parts but also very beautiful.
Belita, your thought about what kind of hobby can you do with an elephant made me laugh out loud. Thanks! And Carol, I am definitely a library user, would add they also have musuc CD's and movies, and mine has numerous back episodes of popular TV series'. They offer classes and have many activities for kids, all sorts of things besides books. Mine has a collection of art reproductions, you can hang one on your wall for a month and then change it out for something different, and even some basic music recording equipment you can check out. Pretty amazing. And the research staff is way better at finding obscure bits of knowledge than I am.

I'm reading, "Neanderthals had a larger brain and were more intelligent than Homo sapiens, and that's why they died out."

My favorite book will always be the Bible.

Awesome puzzle!

I am currently reading "Magical Girl Gunslinger" on RoyalRoad (https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/48402/magical-girl-gunslinger) and Abraham Pais's Inward Bound.

This is a really nice puzzle made even better by your inclusion of the puzzle solver.:) I love to read & am currently into a Dean Koontz novel. Thanks

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