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Reading keeps me quiet for ages, which can't be a bad thing. If there's nothing else to do, I can sit for ages with a book. It can be done pretty much anywhere, except when you're driving, for example.

I like to read mainly crime and medical thrillers, with the occasional crappy romance thrown in when I get sick of all the doom and gloom, or if I want to read something in the bath that I don't mind getting a bit damp. I also read the odd odd book that happens to take my fancy. I'm not keen on spy stories or war stories. I especially like Peter Robinson's series and The cat who... series by Lilian Jackson Braun. I also like the Reacher books by Lee Child, the Lincoln Rhyme books by Jeffery Deaver, Karin Slaughter (such a good name for a crime thriller writer)'s books and some of Tess Gerritsen's work. Oh, and of course, I read the odd linguistics book!

I don't like Sidney Sheldon, Erica Spindler, James Patterson, Jonathon Kellerman, Patricia Cornwell and one or two others.

Find out more about my reading habits in my My Books blog. My books are slowly but surely being catalogued online at LibraryThing; you can see a random selection of my books in the side bar, and my most recently-added books below. You can also search my library from the sidebar.