does your dh read?

So are you prepared to watch football to keep him company?

If the thing you want to do is reading there are many social reading groups to join, don't fores your interest on someone who is clearly not interested

I don't see your problem.

I have an interest in photography but would never for one minute expect my husband to take an interest.

I can't imagine being married to a man who doesn't read. We both read all the time but DH reads more non-fiction than I do. He is in hospital for tests at the moment and the man sharing the room doens't read at all but sits twiddling with his phone or Tablet hunched up and looks disatisfied and miserable. My husband passes the time reading -has a choice of books and newspapers, and seems more contented. Considering that both are in hospital but neither is desperately ill.

Yes, my DH is a keen reader - he makes one book last for months, I daren't get one for him from the library! The only time he reads is last thing in the evening, in bed. But within five seconds the breathing quietens, the book slants over and finally drops on the floor, disturbing his rest!
The only time he reads during the day would be on holiday in the sun - so that doesn't happen very often!

Bliss!

I am an avid reader and always have a book on the go, at least one a week, but since joining GN I don't read nearly as many books as I used to. We have already had a thread about this with other members experiencing the same.

DH is not a reader of books. The only books I remember him reading were Spike Milligan. He does read the newspaper and private eye and the odd book containing short quotes.

He does however love music and in the evening we sit together, me lost in a book, DH listening to music. Failing that, we share crosswords and code words. We also enjoy jigsaws.......really exciting couple us two .

At the moment, DH is in another room watching snooker which I have no interest in and I am about to start a new book I downloaded last night.

Our house is full of books as we both love reading. We share crime fiction but I think I read more non fiction than DH. He'd love me to go fishing with him but I'd be bored stiff. I did try taking a picnic and a good book but the weather changed so I ended up sitting in the car.

We both read. DH prefers books based in facts. He enjoys adventure novels written in 1800s and 1900 historical biography. The men in my family tend to go for the factual books. I enjoy a really eclectic mix, as long as they are well written. X

We have a good system, we both read, but totally different genres, and then annoy the hell out of each other quoting interesting bits from our book to our palpably uninterested other half.

I`m an avid reader, have been all my life, whereas my hubby has never read a book in his life, and is quite proud of the fact. He reads newspapers, but not cover to cover, but as for anything else, definitely not.

I love my reading and usually get through a book a week, but only because I commute to work on public transport, though I also read in bed and usually indulge in a couple of hours of duvet time with my book before I get up on a weekend.

DH reads the newspapers from cover to cover, but rarely reads a book. It was a standing joke with us that Howard Hughes (in the form of his biography) came on holiday with us for at least 4 years running! He's now been supplanted by a biography of Al Capone - it's only a slim volume, but I can see him going in the suitcase for the next 3 years.

We have no problem with this. He loves his gardening and his sport, neither of which I'm interested in, apart from when the Olympics are on. We both enjoy nights out together, and TV and radio of an evening, board games when we have time, and we have plenty of other things in common. I think having your own interests is important, otherwise surely you'd just be living in each other's pockets?

Neither of us are readers, accept the papers. ( Now I feel inadequate.)

High days and holidays for both of us, I guess I would pick up a book before DH.

I do read on holiday abroad but never in the UK. Too little time, prefer to be out and about and play cards, dominoes, crib, scrabble etc. with a drink in the evening, or watch the tele .

Of course I do GN and spend far too much time on that.

But Tegan - my house is always like that!

We do both read crime novels. I used to get livid when I would go up to bed looking forward to another chapter, and find that DBH had run out of reading matter and filched mine. Totally unrepentant too. His mother was always foisting dreadful bodice rippers on me, and in the end I discovered that a pile of those permanently on display, with the thrillers stuffed safely under the bed, was the only way to save DBH's life.

Have to agree with what KatyK has said. One of the problems when I was married was that my ex, who tended to visit his friends a lot [ I stayed at home with the children] would always come home with tales of how tidy their houses were and how happy their marriages and wouldn't believe me when I said it was actually because they had a visitor.

An interesting point came up when I was talking to DH about reading. (He used to read quite a bit but finds it hard to concentrate on a book since he's been ill) I had read an article in which the writer talked about getting immersed in a book to the point that you become the hero or heroin. I said that I couldn't imagine any other way of reading and DH looked at me as if I was completely mad. He couldn't understand what I was talking about, so there is obviously more than one way of reading.

Interestingly our sons have taken after us in different ways. Our older son reads avidly and he and I often find ourselves reading the same books at the same time and we recommend books to each other knowing that we have similar tastes. Our younger son reads more slowly, but like his dad he will remember everything he reads and he also enjoys audio books.

Yes, we both read too. In fact the last time we went on a proper holiday, part of it is buying books at the airport, and each choosing something that we will both enjoy, with the idea of swapping half way through.

Fine in theory, but if one of you reads faster than the other...........

We both read, he's reading right now, the new Jo Nesbo. He likes crime more than any other genre, but will read books I have raved about. When he's not reading a book he likes to read The Times, starting off with sport, then business he works back to front with the paper, which is good for me cos I get the front, but once I'm through with the news that's it. I don't give a monkey's about sport. Sunday papers take a bit longer because of the colour supplements, most of which are rubbish!

What I would do without a good book? there's so much rubbish on tv. In desperation I tuned into BBC IPlayer last night and caught up with Lucy Worsley's The First Georgians and a very interesting programme about Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul presented by Simon Sebag something or other on BBC4, sadly we don't have a Scandi/Italian series at the moment. If I had to watch anything along the lines of "Britain's Got Talent" on Saturday night, I'd shoot myself. No I wouldn't I'd read a book!

I am looking forward to the second instalment of the new Sarah Lancashire prog.though that was very good.

BeeWitch, I get a lot of that "things being read out" so annoying particularly when it's anything to do with how West Ham have done, or golf.........how many ways can one express "I just don't care!", without seeming rude of course!

Maisie - re the loved up friends and friends who say their husbands do this and that for them. I'm not disputing this for a moment but there is an old saying 'believe none of what you hear and half of what you see'.

Mine loves reading, but will insist on reading out the odd paragraph of his book with me, usually starting with a synopsis of the story so far, while I am trying to read my own book. It's awful to say it, but he is a bit long-winded and I end up wanting to whack him one I tend to make 'mmmm' noises, and try to concentrate, but it doesn't always work. Still, he doesn't mind me warming my feet on him in bed, so I can live with the lectures ....

Even if husbands DO read, chances are they won't like the same genre as you do.Nothing wrong with your DH just liking his newspapers, internet sports/news and maybe crosswords.I must say I don't know any couples who chat happily about the books that they have read [to each other.]We like different things, so I chat [bore possibly] to others ,mainly women about books.My DH makes me breakfast every morning [though only cooked on Sundays.]Fair division of labour though, as I make all the other meals usually.Me and my DH don't have that much in common, but it hasn't stopped us having a long and happy marriage.

My DP spends lots of time on the internet but never reads a book or paper except occasionally on holiday. My son gave him a kindle fire when he upgraded and DP downloaded a free book. He is now on his second book so there is always hope!

Same here Kitty- we both read a lot, but very different books generally.
We gave to the Loros book shop tons of books when we moved (Loros is our wonderful local hospice for the terminally ill)- but we still have a 'library' here which covers a huge wall and full of 100s of books. When in Market Harborough, there is a very good charity book shop- and I just can't resist .... OH neither.

Didn't mention in my first post that DH reads two newspapers a day and three on Sunday. Plus woodworking, gardening, and model making magazines. He's on first name terms with our newsagent and the two sons that work in the shop.

My DH is Italian! That says it all! Generally Italians don't read, not even newspapers unless they are free in the bar!! He has a habit of talking to me and then saying "I'm sorry were you reading?" !!

I was always being told to go outside and play in the sunshine instead of having my nose stuck in a book when I was a child.

Now it is DH making sarcastic comments because I am on here.

Must go outside and get some