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Thank you everyone! BCF is such a virtual literary forum..

Thanks for the warm welcome Miss Mabel , I have never been a reader but more of an audio/video person.. but that changed. I recently read about Carl Sagan's TV series that were remade by Neil deGrasse Tyson present director of the Hayden Planetarium, NY. I remembered Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos' book, the only non-academic book I have ever read in my whole life.. Inspirational, intuitive and brilliant author.. I would recommend him to anyone in a heart's beat. Thanks for the suggestion Miss Mabel.. I am on a mission to get into reading and Robin Cook who introduced the word "medical" to the thriller genre (as per http://www.robincook.com/ ) seems like one of a good place to get lost for a beginner like me.

Hello Athena! , Thanks for your post... I did a little research after your post and found my kind of books are "Popular Science", "Scientific Anthology" and anything related to STEM field of studies.. Literary science has always inspired me even during my school days.. I liked watching informative documentaries, reading current events about this weird and wonderful niche world of my mine, TV program's about Science.. Hmm.. It makes sense now when I think about it.. I buy ebooks from Amazon.. I think they have a huge collection of everything on Popular Science there.. There is always something about classic literature.. And I wanted to reading them all.. I am afraid if I will ever have the energy to open one as all these classics are HUGE! I am taking away something else from your post too.. That I can always go through a variety of generes and sub-generes and there will always be something I never heard of and to try something new.. Thanks Athena, Woohoo! Time to get lost in a book again after a long time!

Hello everyone! , I am not really a book person.. The only non-academic book I have ever read is Carl Sagan's Cosmos.. I really enjoyed reading it 12 years ago .. I still remember to this day the journey Carl took me with his book.. Never forget! By this time tomorrow, I would have completed going round the sun 26 times.. I really like to start reading again.. 2 part-time jobs, graduate job applications every day and preparing for interviews.. in the midst of this busy schedule, I reckon book reading would be a good relaxation.. I am really looking into getting lost in books.. to travel along my fellow readers through the journey our high caliber authors take us.. The problem is, It's been a while now and I don't know where to start, what is my preference and little afraid stepping on wrong direction.. or maybe that is the way to find out.. I don't know.. Do we have beginners here? Regular readers.. Of course.. Would you please share with us anything that might be helpful to beginners in my/similar situation? I am going to be a regular visitor now! I feel proud to join a group of like minded people.. BCF that is! Huh, that's a long post.