[speaker001:] well what do you like to read
[speaker002:] uh I read about just anything that I can get my hands on
[speaker001:] you sound like me if it's printed I'll read it
[speaker002:] exactly
[speaker001:] yeah it's amazing to me the people that uh I've I've got a brother and sister-in-law that uh like whenever I go to visit them I'll always have to be sure and carry a book with me because there's nothing to read in their house and I go crazy
[speaker002:] yeah I I pretty much carry my own reading material too I mean I'll uh I'll be walking to work I mean walking to the elevator to work and I'll be reading a book on the way up in the elevator and everybody laughs at me
[speaker001:] you know yeah well I I went to the library yesterday looking around and I found this uh new book by PJ O'Rourke called uh uh Parliament of Horrors and it's about uh
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] it's a humorous humorous attence attempts to explain the entire US government and it's really cute
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] but anyway he wrote for Rolling Stone magazine for years and years I think he still does
[speaker002:] uh-huh is it a is it a satire or
[speaker001:] it is very much a satire
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] well I like I said I I I gosh I can't remember the last book I bought but I've read so many and any book my mother usually has a stack at her house so I'll go and pick up one over there and or several actually and just get through them one by one mostly I like I don't know I suppose uh mystery or history true history
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] that type of thing
[speaker001:] most ladies do like mysteries a lot I have I have a friend too is a voracious history buff she just she reads one history
[speaker002:] yeah um-hum
[speaker001:] book after another and and I was telling her about the library here in Houston that has uh one particular library that has all of the mysteries arranged in one area uh and then another one that while they're not arranged in one area they do they have question marks on the covers to indicate that they're mysteries and she said oh that sounds like heaven to her so she wouldn't have to have to look for them
[speaker002:] um-hum  that's true no I can't say that I've been to the library lately I've found quite a bit I mean I'm either reading a newspaper or a magazine or like I said anything I can get my hands on
[speaker001:] yeah the only problem that I've got now is that uh I take a daily paper and then I've got oh I don't know four or five magazines coming in and then of course I've always usually I'm in the middle of two or three different books at the same time
[speaker002:] exactly
[speaker001:] and I've found lately that uh that I I feel God for some reason I feel kind of bad about it but I'm not able to get through the newspaper I mean and I and and then if I'm not finished with it I don't want to throw it away and then all of a sudden it's the next day and then it's the next day
[speaker002:] uh uh-hum
[speaker001:] my kitchen counter is covered with magazines newspapers so I finally just you know make a run to the dumpster
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] but
[speaker002:] I uh I well I end up just picking out key sections and reading those and the rest of it if I get to it fine if not
[speaker001:] hm yeah yeah the only really the only the only day that I just uh devour it cover to cover is on Sunday but that's sort of a ritual with me get the coffee and a bran muffin and the newspaper and
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] the turn on the stereo and I'm just I'm I'm set for about an hour
[speaker002:] an hour is that all
[speaker001:] well maybe a little more at least an hour at least an hour
[speaker002:] yeah well I know my dad gets both I mean he gets the two Dallas papers here and he he sits down for at least about three so me I don't know I don't I don't sit specifically sit down on Sundays to read the Sunday papers sometimes I don't get to it till like Wednesday
[speaker001:] yeah  yeah well that's the good thing about the Sunday paper though they have so many articles that aren't necessarily uh you know you don't feel like they're
[speaker002:] but eventually
[speaker001:] old if you don't get to them that on that one day
[speaker002:] exactly exactly
[speaker001:] well I uh I don't know I had bought books for years and years and uh the last time I moved when I was transferred to Houston I uh filled up one big closet with books because where I live now doesn't have a bookshelf doesn't have doesn't have the book shelves that I had in Dallas where I moved from
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and uh I don't know see I've I've just I've got such so many books and moving them was such a pain that I've really stopped buying so many and I started going to the library again which uh I hadn't done in fifteen years you know and it was kind of like an awakening I thought you know gosh this is free it's amazing so but I've enjoyed it and I
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah it's it's really a much better idea it's a bit inconvenient for me but I've I've always told myself I'd do that because I don't know I get the books and then after I read them if I really like them I'll keep them but if if not you know it's it's wasted space for me so I end up giving them away
[speaker001:] yeah yeah but um I've got I'm kind of sort of surrounded I've got three different libraries that are within oh I don't know it's uh I guess the furthest one away is maybe two miles one of them's only about a half mile away the other one's about a mile and a half
[speaker002:] well that's good
[speaker001:] and it and one in particular stays open until uh nine o'clock
[speaker002:] hm
[speaker001:] Monday through Friday so it's you know it's great and that makes it it it you know if they were just regular hours then it would be difficult because I'm usually work pretty late at the office but um
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] anyway that uh I still like to go to the bookstores and browse around but uh
[speaker002:] well I'll I'll read the reviews
[speaker001:] uh-huh
[speaker002:] and if they end