Things that are too effeminate for my dad: Reading novels

I have never seen my father reading a book of any kind. I have seen him leaf through books, usually coffee table books, usually at someone's insistence, usually to be polite. My father is not a psychopath. My father is not illiterate. He's just not a reader. He's the most militant non-reader I've ever seen.

I know that he has read books for courses he has taken over the years but I have never seen him engaged in this activity. Perhaps he does the entirety of his reading in the bathroom. Whatever. Whatever. I'm not going to think about that.

Even so, I can say with some certainty that he has not read a novel if not ever, at least in the last 25 years. I have never heard him discus authors, recap a plot, speak of his interest in the latest bestseller or quote a favourite literary character.

Non-novel books I have known my father to read (complete list)

1. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

Does your dad read? Like, does he read books?

This is what I imagine a Dad Book looks like. Image via Wikipedia