What do you like to read? What books and authors do you read?

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What is it that attracted you to read? Was there someone in your wife that encouraged you to read? How old were you when you first started to read and what books/authors did you enjoy reading then? Has your reading preferences changed over the years? Do you have a specific genre that you prefer? Who are some of the authors that you follow? How many books/magazines/journals do you read in a month? I started reading by the age of 4-5. My preference then was the Dr seuss books and Curious George, until now I enjoy reading these books to my nephews and nieces. My parents influenced me to love reading. They didn't mind at all how much i spent on books. The school i attended also provided an environment that encouraged reading, we'd actually have library period every week. When I didnt have anything else to read, i started reading the encyclopedia from cover to cover, even dwelt on some of my mom's medical books. But mostly as a teen, it was Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew, Archie comics, Beverly Cleary and eventually sweet Valley High. Right now my reading habits haven't changed, am still a voracious reader, though I used to speed read, I can't read as fast now. Not because I do not enjoy it but because of my limited attention span at the moment. My favorites are still detective/murder stories, especially related to some medical content, like Robin Cook, Patricia Cornwell, Tess gerritsen, Charles Wilson. Others I like are Chrichton, Grisham, Robert Walker, James Patterson, Keith Ablow to name a few. I don't read romance novels as much, only one I followed some was Harold Robbins. Nora Roberts I like when she writes as JD Robb. A lot of my time though presently and reading medical research journals. I want to keep upto date with the latest treatments esp for mental illness, s I suffer from it and my psychiatrist and i hven't managed to find the right combination of meds and psychotherapy for me. I also help him out with some of his lectures. Overall, reading is a BIG part of who I mm. When I go to the bookstore, i get lost for hours upon hours just like a kid in a to store. LOL! I get lost at the toy store as well.