I would rather read than do most anything else, except go to the beach . I prefer mysteries but have gravitated to romantic thrillers when I ran out of mystery authors. By profession, I am a Math teacher in a large public high school. I also have a small garden in my back yard here in Houston so I read gardening books, especially those about growing herbs. I have hundreds of books, on shelves, in boxes, in stacks and piled on the floor by my easy chair. I am hoping to get some of them out of the house, and thus de-clutter, by passing them on.