TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:

The Mrs. and I just finished Mocking Jay, the third Hunger Games book. It tooks us most of a year to get through the first half- then we read the last half in a weekend. I had heard that the book was a real let down after the first two, but I was determined to enjoy it. Well... the first half is hard to enjoy. It really picks up in the second half, right up until the rather disappointing ending.

We?

Just curious how this works.

We take turns reading aloud. Most of the time it's just on long drives (like finishing Mocking Jay) but depending on how well we're enjoying a book, we might actually spend valuable movie/TV time reading it aloud. That's usually reserved for special books like Harry Potter or the last 20-30 pages of a good one.

It works quite well for us, but most couples respond that they've never tried it and/or that they can't imagine it working. It's nice, because we're always "at the same spot" in the book and can talk about it while we read it. Sort of like a book club, but where people actually read the book, we don't get sloshed, and there is very little neighbourhood gossip.

We've even done it with a few graphic novels, but that's always really weird. So, mostly, I just give her the comics I think she'll enjoy and she reads them on her own.

We've also listened to the same audiobooks at the same time (but separately) and someone is usually way ahead of the other, and it kind of wrecks our ability to have good discussions.

It's something we started on our honeymoon when my wife realized I hadn't read any Nicholas Sparks books. And she hadn't read 1984.