What Do Your Non-Reader Friends Think of Your Reading?

[RandomAnthony]

Someone on another community I'm in recently commented how they think that if they find someone with the same taste in music and other things, they're a keeper.

I'm sorry. You're not allowed to date other communities. We're going steady.

:)

[RandomAnthony]

I have a hard time sleeping if I haven't read. I better be good and drunk if I'm going to try such a thing.

[Angie]

It's not a goodreads community... so it doesn't count, baby. ;) :P

[Mary]

Wait....what's wrong with reading during sexytime??? Sometimes when I'm not in the mood I'll let my husband do his thing anyway, as long as I don't have to put my book down. That way we're both happy.

[Jackie "the Librarian"]

Me, too. I love to read in bed until I can't keep my eyes open anymore.

[Félix]

Oh, Mary.

[Angie]

lol @ Mary.

I've never been a bedtime reader for some reason. I guess you could say that I used to be a strict follower of "don't do things in bed because you'll condition yourself to fall asleep while doing those activities."

[Félix]

Bathtub, Angie?

[Angie]

Ah, but bathtub time is relaxing time and not falling-asleep time. But now that you point it out, I see the connection.

[Félix]

Just don't fall asleep and drop it.

[Flora]

Gus wrote: "Flora wrote, So I've just come to accept that there will be no reading at bedtime, I guess hes worth the sacrifice ;)

I guess that depends if you're trying to read while...you know...doing the ho..."

lol, no, that has nothing to do with. I will always put the book down for that >:) thats just our time and I feel like I'm ignoring him if I try to read at bedtime

[Flora]

Angie wrote: "Someone on another community I'm in recently commented how they think that if they find someone with the same taste in music and other things, they're a keeper.

Immediately, I thought, "NOO! I wan..."

I don't want someone who is exactly like me, its the differences that make life interesting. Not that they should be an exact opposite tho

[Flora]

Larry wrote: "Just don't fall asleep and drop it."

Which is why I wouldn't read in the bath. I wouldn't fall asleep and drop it, but I would end up dropping it anyway

[[deleted user]]

I have one or two friends that read-- more that do not, including my wife. My mom reads, but what I read compared to what she reads is almost the exact opposite.My mom is more into 'pop-culture' of writing-- John Grisham, etc. Not that I am into deep literature, but I don't like Grisham. Anyway...

1)One friend will make comments about what I am reading...the rest just look at me.

2)I don't think I have ever been mocked for reading, or if it did happen, I, either, wasn't there or wasn't paying attention-- then they just look at me.

3)The one friend that makes the comments about what I am reading has recently begun to read more-- everyone else just looks at me.