What's the quickest....

read not tea

Oh easily in an afternoon! Can't say what mind you easily read, easily forgotten

I take ages to read a book. Even really good ones. Mind you, I'm quite glad because I like a good thing to last.

The book I'm reading at the moment, The Cathedral by Hugh Walpole, is taking a long time to warm up. Wondering if it will. (was recommended by someone on Gransnet - they liked it!)

Of course, Gransnetting doesn't help really.

As a child I can remember being totally engrossed in books, I seem to get more easily distracted now unless it is superb which is very rarely mores the pity as I do like a good read. If it is good I can read it within a few days I suppose I have more call on my time now and so not so much to myself

Like Soutra easily in an afternoon if it's good.
Also like Soutra easily forgotten!

Depends how long it is, as well. If it's a mighty tome, an afternoon might be stretching it a bit...

I seem to remember Love Story was very short - I read it in one sitting, I think!

I stayed up all night once to read a Maeve Binchy book. It was midsummer and seemed to stay quite light all night.

It usually takes me longer now because I only read at night and stop when I drop the book or Kindle!

Yes Ana when I say as day, what I mean is a few hours.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting that I read it quicker than you did, nina - I just remember it being a small, thin book and of course I was much younger then and seemed to have more time for reading...

#speedreadingwars

I read between six and eight books a week but they are not literary tomes. If I choose to read something a bit more substantial than my regular diet of nice murders and thrillers, I tend to read more slowly and carefully. A recent history of nineteenth- and early twentieth century New Zealand, for example, took a couple of days.

"A recent history of nineteenth- and early twentieth century New Zealand, for example, took a couple of days"

Get you missis.

absentinthelead#

Not 'alf!

(Ana darling, the hashtag goes in front of the words )

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I think I must skip read. Zip through a book and forget it almost straight away. Whereas best friend takes ages ( we have been on holiday together and I have read six while she was half way through the first one) but she remembers books far better than I do. Mind I do have the bonus that I can reread books and enjoy them all over again, having forgotten them instantly.

A few hours for average book. Bible took longer!

#whocares?#

(that was to jingl, not you Galen!)