Do dancers read?

[dancewriter]

Or are they too busy dancing? Just wondered. If you're a dancer and a reader, what kind of stuff do you read?

[SPratt74]

Or are they too busy dancing? Just wondered. If you're a dancer and a reader, what kind of stuff do you read?

I'm very much into biographies of people. I also like ghost stories that type of thing you know like I love John Edwards those type of stories. I used to be into history, but I got over that. But I used to like reading about wars and things. I know a lot about each of the wars though lol, so that might come in useful if I ever you know land a spot on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire! :p Oh and I also love genealogy books. I have read just about all of the books that Virginia has to offer trying to find my family lol. Seriously. I've got two bookcases full of those things lol. But that's just me though! ;)

[jschaab]

I don't read as much as I did prior to learning to dance, simply because between dancing and supporting my dance habit there isn't much time left. These days I do most of my reading when I travel. I read "Rebekah" by Orson Scott Card on the flight to and from Emerald Ball the other week, which turned out to be a pretty good read. Most of what I read fall under the catagory of Sci-Fi. however this was more along the lines of historical fiction, which I also tend to enjoy.

[ssjss]

I tend to read mostly short stories and poetry. But I do read about 5 hours aweek.

[Shooshoo]

These days I do most of my reading when I travel.

Wish I would read more.

I also have a problem really getting into the book, so unless the book is interesting enough to get me hooked, I have many half-finished books. That's why I always have a supply of short stories.

I like social/cultural (about how people live and relate in different parts of the world), travel (describing all the places I want to go to and hope to one day) and comedy books.

[Twilight_Elena]

I read classics. Because I sort of have to read classics before moving on to contemporaries. I'm currently reading "100 Years of Solitude" which I've started about 5 times :lol: and am now determined to finish (the names get incredibly confusing after a while). Simone De Beauvoire, Kazantzakis, Kafka and other big guys are what I've been reading. Admittedly I haven't finished a single book of Kafka's because one fo my teachers at school almost pried "The Tower" out of my hands. It was one month before the finals and he said "You really shouldn't be reading such things at this period of your life." I respect him a lot, so I reconsidered and decided to continue afterwards. Hm. I wonder where that book is now.
Note. I think dancers reading is logical. Clears your head in a way. I would also like to note that just because you don't have to know how to count beyond 8 so as to dance, doesn't mean all dancers are brainless and/or have no intellectual interests/activities.

T_E

[Peaches]

I read pretty much whenever I can--I almost always have a book with me. I read if I have to wait for anything for a while, commuting on the train (hour and 10 minutes each way) if I don't fall asleep, during lunch at work, in the evenings if my husband isn't home (which is often), while waiting for lessons, when I wake up on weekends...you name it.

I like classics, but I'm kind of over them since I refuesed to read anything other than a classic in high school. Now I like what I'd consider contemporary classics or contemporary literature--new stuff that I reall think will stand the test of time. Plus pulp fiction and hideous romances. And my husband's magazines.

This week my reading has started interfering with my dancing--I've been staying up late to read, and not napping on the train, so by Friday I was absolutely exhausted. Not a good state for dancing, although I tried.

[cornutt]

I read a ton, but most of it is work or career related. Most of the rest is nonfiction of some sort. I just finished reading a couple of books about the history of chemistry and the discovery of the elements and the periodic table. I read a lot about military, aviation, and space flight history. In the past couple of months I've read a couple of books about WWI aircraft, and I've re-read Eddie Rickenbacker's autobiography. I also read in magazines and on the Internet about electronic music and recording.

My preferred fiction is science fiction. I got into it in the '80s, when there were a lot of good writers. Nowdays, though the genre is mostly full of trash, so I don't read it as much. I just finished a new Larry Niven novel, "Destiny's Road".

[fascination]

well they used to...lol

[dancewriter]

Thank you for replying to the reading post. I, too, have a ton of unfinished books that didn't grab me for some reason or another. Try: NIGHT, by E. Wiesel. I read it in one sitting.

[dancewriter]

Thanks for your post! Most posters, I'm finding, are readers -- or else why would they respond, you know???

[fascination]

Thank you for replying to the reading post. I, too, have a ton of unfinished books that didn't grab me for some reason or another. Try: NIGHT, by E. Wiesel. I read it in one sitting.omg...talk about depressing

[icering]

I really don't like reading, I perfer audiobooks over actually reading. But I do read some books...but rarely.

[PasoDancer]

McKinley, Rowling, Pierce (Meredith-Ann), Salman Rushdie, Kate Chopin, Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, Von Daniken, Vonnegut, Anton LaVey, just so I can get a good chuckle out of how he completely ripped off Crowley, and people actually bought it, and yes, I love "kid's books" by Lynne Reid Banks, Scott O'Dell, Jean Craighead-George, and Frances Hodgson-Burnett.

Why are the best authors always hyphenated?

Oh- all those nerdy old classics you HATED in the thick, heavy college books? I love 'em.

[Twilight_Elena]

Why are the best authors always hyphenated?

Hey. Good point. :lol: I guess they sound more important. ;)

T_E

[SuzieQ]

I love to read and don't get to as much either since I started dancing and working full time. My favorites are mysteries; some of my favorite authors are Martha Grimes, P.D. James, love old Earl Stanley Garner books (Perry Mason) and of course Agatha Christie. I also like biographies and historical fiction. I am currently trying to read through the Bible (have done it before on a yearly basis but now I'm just trying to get through "some day") and add in some political issue and theology books. And DF, of course! I always have a book with me.

[hello]

I read DF, haha!

[DancePoet]

Or are they too busy dancing? Just wondered. If you're a dancer and a reader, what kind of stuff do you read?
I read DF. :D :lol:

But yes, I read newspapers, magazines, and books.

I can read my SO's two teenagers' minds, and sometimes her's, too. ;) :lol:

[SuzieQ]

Just got a new book at B&N--"Kiss and Tango"--so far it seems to be more about sex than tango--maybe I should post this in the "Dancing Does Lead to Sex" thread!! Also reading "No Safe Place" by Richard North Patterson--new author for me.

[The_Dancing_Princess]

Dancers do read! I'm a dancer and I read Harry Potter all the time, and I act cos' I wanna be an actress!

[PasoDancer]

I just realized I could have answered "No- then they'd be called readers instead of dancers." Meh, slow to the draw am I lately.

[pygmalion]

Dancers do read! I'm a dancer and I read Harry Potter all the time, and I act cos' I wanna be an actress!

Hi TheDancing Princess. Welcome. :D

[RIdancer82]

I wish I had time to read... but there never seems to be any time left between dancing, school, and working 3 jobs to pay for dance, school, and my car. :( I have lots of books that I have already either started, or are waiting to be read, and they're all different types.

[pygmalion]

Three jobs? Yikes!

[RIdancer82]

yea, that's what I'm saying too, but I need to come up w/ money to pay for the new car somehow, since it was an expense I hadn't saved up for since I wasn't expecting it.

[DancePoet]

Three Jobs? :shock:

Let's hope they aren't all 40 hour a week positions. ;)

[Twilight_Elena]

Let's hope they aren't all 40 hour a week positions. ;)

Not enough hours in a day for such a thing. ;)

T_E