Do you read with your significant other?

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Do you read with your significant other? If so, what do you like to read together? I’m reading Harry Potter to my girlfriend as she has never read or watched any of them but I have.
 
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We often read and discussed books. Our love of Larry Niven was one of the first shared things we found out about each other!
 
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Do you read with your significant other? If so, what do you like to read together? I’m reading Harry Potter to my girlfriend as she has never read or watched any of them but I have.
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I would not like to be read to unless it is an audiobook.
 
Yes, I read with my husband. We sit in the same room. We just read separate books. 😉
 
My SO is dead but he used to read Wind in the Willows to me doing all the animal voices in different British accents. He also would read a couple other children’s books we had bought. I had severe anxiety at that time and he did a lot of things to help me chill out in the evenings. Unfortunately our lives got busy and he got more tired and we never did finish Wind in the Willows. We stopped about at the part with the boot scraper as I recall.
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Yes, I read with my husband. We sit in the same room. We just read separate books. 😉
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I also did this all the time with my husband and the guy before him. If a guy isn’t capable of being happy sitting quietly in a room with me while we both read things, or poke around on our separate electronic devices and read things on there, then he’s not compatible with me. I spent many hours as a young person sitting in a room with my dad while we both read separate books and it was fine until my mother would show up and start berating us for reading for hours in silence instead of conversing with each other. Mom wasn’t a big reader.
 
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My late husband and I read different types of things, but we both went to what is called “Great Books” meetings in our city library. In fact, that is how we first started going out together and knowing each other. Members of the meetings were given sets of books with excerpts from some of the books which influenced many of the thinkers of history and our times. We read the selections by ourselves but then discussed them together with the group when we met.

I had a science background in school and felt I missed a lot in the history of literature. My husband loved reading and writing and was drawn to it for that reason. We went for several years.

The Great Books Foundation is still around and has a website. To describe it a little more I will just quote a few lines from there:
Passionate readers meeting to discuss enduring ideas—that was the vision shared in the 1940s by two University of Chicago educators, Robert Maynard Hutchins and Mortimer Adler. By that time, Hutchins and Adler each had a long history of seeking to reform higher education, which was becoming increasingly specialized. Both men believed that the best way to gain a liberal education, in or out of the university, was to discuss the writings of the world’s great thinkers.
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My parents do 🙂 Nearly always have one on the go.
I would have liked to have also.
 
We don’t, for two principal reasons: wildly different reading subject preferences and separate native languages. So the closest we get to “reading together” is silently reading different things while being in the same room at the same time. :woman_shrugging:t2:
 
My husband and I like to read Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” together as part of our Christmas traditions. We’re going to go see “Scrooge” with Alistair Sims on the big screen in a couple of weeks. We’re excited about that and hope to be done reading beforehand.
 
You might enjoy A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Very tiny little book, but very nice.
 
I really enjoy Dickens…thanks for the headsup about the movie!
 
Thanks! I will definitely look for that! It sounds like something I’d really enjoy.
 
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