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doubleofive
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What are you reading?
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17-Aug-2011, 8:14 AM

xhonzi said:

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.
The weekend the last Harry Potter book came out, my wife and I visited another couple, got the book at midnight, and did this all weekend. When we got tired of reading aloud, we read silently (yes, we bought 4 copies) for a few chapters, then met together to talk about it before reading another few chapters aloud. Unfortunately we ran out of time before we had to head home, but I finished reading it to my wife in the car on the way.