While under house arrest she obsessively read books ranging from biographies to spy thrillers .
在软禁期间,她痴迷地读书,无论是人物传记还是谍海耸闻。
While my mother reads fiction ( mostly thrillers ) , my father reads business books ( lots of them ) .
我妈喜欢看惊悚小说而我爸则读不计其数的商业丛书。
There are difficult , stylised novels that one knows one should read but can only manage a few pages at a time ; hardbacks that are interesting but too heavy to lug on the train ; thrillers that are good page-turners but are saved for long plane trips .