A bit more about me (Meme)

There's been a meme floating around for a while about relationships, and I thought it'd be fun to do the version My Life in Books posted (which she got off someone else).

How long did you know each other before you began dating?
We met at a wedding (cheesy but true) and then started dating two months later.

How old are you?
Mid-twenties/early thirties.

Did you go to the same school?
Nope. He studied in Montreal and Toronto and I studied in Ottawa.

Are you from the same home town?
We grew up in cities seven hours apart. He's from a city of about 50,000 people, I grew up in a city of about 10,000.

Who came to the couple with more books?
Definitely me!! He's good at "reading and releasing", in that he's not a hoarder or collector like I am. He doesn't buy a lot of books and often passes them on to other people once he's done reading them. Now that we have a home, though, and space for books, he might be tempted to hold on to a few more.

Who reads more?
Hmm, not sure. We both read while commuting and traveling, but he has longer commutes than I do. I read before bed pretty much every night and whenever I have a spare moment in the evening or weekends. He has been known to spend entire days in bed reading. So I guess it just depends on the moment.

Reading and professional life—a match or a mismatch?
Me - yes, him - not at all. Reading is part of my job (I have to read a LOT, but I don't read novels, it's not a literary job at all). He works with a lot of uneducated people and could not read while working - impossible.

Did you have different childhoods, in terms of reading?
Similar in some ways but very different too. Our parents both always encouraged us to read. However, he saw his dad reading a lot more than I saw my parents. My mom read to me a lot when I was very little, but then it became very much of a solitary activity for me. Reading was part of family life for him I think.

Any disagreements over authors or books?
There are some books that he's loved that I just couldn't get into. But no, we haven't really had big disagreements over any authors or books. We really like a lot of the same things.

Best gifted books over the history of your couple?
Best? I don't know. But worst gifted book is probably the very first present I gave him, I really didn't know him well at the time and gave him a book that I hadn't even read yet. I really had no idea what to get him. The book turned out to be ok, but it wasn't his style at all.

Who reads faster?
In English, me; in French, him.

Are books a main hobby for you both?
No, not a main hobby. It was for me during some periods of my life, but now we are both are involved in so many other activities I can't say it's our main hobby.

Current books
He's reading the French version of Ken Follett's Pillars of the Earth, I think. I'm finishing up the same book (in English) which I started a looooong time ago (and then we can fight about who gets to read the sequel first, we only have one copy). I'm also reading Francine Ouellet's Le Grand Blanc, which he read just before me, and Maria Chapdelaine. I'm actually in the middle of quite a few books at the moment, but I won't list them all here. The book I pick up depends on my mood and where I am.