There is no greater enemy of reading for pleasure than advanced degrees. Try reading 400 pages of scholarly journal articles every week that read like this (see below) and then tell me I should read books for fun.

"We need to deepen our understanding on how people interact with the built environment and other material forms before we can advance statements about how their practical knowledge and perception (Giddens, 1984) changed through time.. For that we require new developments, at a theoretical and practical level, and possibly the incorporation of disciplines that so far have been little acknowledged in archaeology (e.g. experimental and ecological psychology, landscape and urban design, artificial intelligence). Many of these provide tools and techniques from which others can be built in order to understand social action rather than imposing a behavioural model. Thus, they can provide explanations and insights for precise processes, which may then be incorporated into a larger framework in order to construct powerful arguments on human spatiality in a bottom-up fashion."