TGIFriday! What are you reading? 5/17

[charlatti]

What are you reading this week? 
QOTW: How do you feel about distractions while you're reading? What can you ignore and what can't you?

[charlatti]

I'm reading His Majesty's Hope, the newest Maggie Hope mystery, and Wesley the Owl, a nonfiction book about a biologist who adopts a orphan owl and raises him. Both are good so far.

QOTW: I ask because right now I'm listening to drilling and sanding from my basement, where we're having foundation work done. It is not easy to ignore. I prefer quiet when I read and don't really like background noise other than nature sounds -- waves, wind, rain, that sort of thing is fine.

[elletr13]

I'm reading Girls in White Dresses by Jennifer Close. It is a cute, easy read.

It depends on the distraction. I can read pretty easily in the car, plane, etc. Sometimes if I'm reading on the couch and DH is watching tv I have problems concentrating.

[daydreamer]

I just finished The Age of Innocence. Edith Wharton was entertaining as usual. Next I'm joining the classic Russian readers with The Brothers Karamasov by Dostoevsky, but I also need to bring another book in paperbook form on my long weekend for the take offs and landings.

I get annoyed at distractions and usually remove myself from the situation or switch my attention to whatever else is catching my attention.

[ChillyMcFreeze]

I'm reading The Cider House Rules.

I can usually tune out any distraction, but if I start listening to something on TV, I have trouble tuning it back out.

[Deleted]

Finishing Virginia Woolf by Hermione Lee and picked up Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers.

I like to read in quiet. I get annoyed by distractions.

[secretlyevil]

A few chapters into Inferno, it's different than the last book. I haven't made up my mind yet about it. Need to finish by the end of next weekend since H wants to take it on his work trip so hope to have a much better review next week.

QOTW: I'm pretty good at tuning things out when I read, or split my attention - half listen to the tv while reading, etc.

[msmerymac]

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Volente. Love it. I'm 1/3 done.

Depending on the book and my mood, I can sit in the living room with H watching TV and get absorbed into it. So I guess background stuff is fine. H trying to talk to me is not fine! But obviously I prefer quiet, so if I'm going to read I usually just go to bed.

[booknerd]

I'm reading Jewels of the Sun, the first in the Gallaghers of Ardmore series by Nora Roberts.

QOTW: I hate distractions while reading. I don't mind background noises like the ocean, wind, rain, etc. If anything I enjoy those noises. I can tune out my husband's video games pretty easily too, as long as it isn't too loud. But music, TV, people talking/laughing, etc. are all distracting. I'm taking a trip next weekend and I'm worried I'll be on the plane next to a talker. I shove my nose in a book to read, people! Stop talking to me lol.

[MrsAxilla]

The Great Gatsby.

I'm good at blocking out distractions when the book is holding my interest.

[rootbeerfloat]

I just picked up two books from the library - Me Before You, by Jo Jo Moyes and a book about MTV. I'm leaning towards starting with the MTV book.

QOTW: My H constantly complains about me ignoring him and the kids while I'm reading, so draw your own conclusions

[aurora]

Anna Karenina, and I expect to have the same answer again next week and maybe the following. The good news is that I passed the halfway mark!

Because I couldn't focus entirely on Anna, I also pulled Madeline L'Engle's A Wind in the Door off the shelf for a light change.

QOTW: with some books, I can ignore just about everything.

[dorothyinAus]

I'm still slogging through The Ninth Daughter.  I have really hit a hard spot with this one and I feel bad about it because I thought I would enjoy it so much more.  And to make it worse, I can't even really define what is making it such a chore to get through.  It's an interesting mystery and there isn't an over abundance of description or anything, I'm just slogging.

QOTW:  I can usually block out most things.  When I was working I would take my book to a busy cafeteria/food court and I would disappear into the world of the book, the background noise ceased to exist.  The only thing I cannot block out is the tv.  I really can't even read in a room with the tv on, but interestingly waiting rooms, airport lounges, and bars are exceptions.  I can block out the tv there, just not in a house.

[amy726]

I've just started Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood.

I usually read in bed at night because I get too distracted by the TV and my DH talking. Although usually DS is in the room with me so my reading is stop start.

[chicacocodrilo]

I'm reading The Dinner by Herman Koch. I started it a week ago and I'm on page 30. Yeesh.

I'm pretty good with distractions--there's a ton of them on the Metro (where I do a ton of reading), but I can usually ignore. Two things really get me, though: high-pitched voices and chatty conductors. Those can knock me right out of any book.

[ally]

I am reading When a Scot Loves a Lady - for my book club.  It is what it is.

QOTW: like others I can ignore some stuff in a noisy environment (plane, restaurant), but it my house I prefer to be a quiet room, though I can ignore most DH noise (TV, podcast) if he is in a different room.

[BlackCanary]

I've just finished Gave Peril by Jim Butcher. I'm now reading Summer Knight by Jim Butcher.