In response to our Blokes vs Books campaign, Wellington-based film technician Duncan Nimmo shares his reading routine with us:

I grew up in the 70's and 80's in Christchurch in a home without television. That meant being excluded from 'A Team' and Blackadder conversations, but it also meant that I cultivated a regular reading habit. Regular, that is, until I studied literature at university which fogged my reading with a sense of books being very important, which put me off altogether.

Then a career in tech and media, where the work is primarily textual, which leaves my language centres rubbed raw by the end of the day.

But then family and bedtime stories. Repeatedly reading aloud beautiful little stories to excitedly appreciative little minds has rebooted my love of reading. And, perhaps, a bit of life experience has helped me simply recognise what a piece of writing is getting at rather than straining to find meaning as I did as an earnest undergrad.

I read for myself every day now, but I don't read a lot. On Ray Bradbury's advice, I read an essay, a story and a poem before sleep. It seems to prime my unconscious with fresh material to ping against, which seems to open up new possibilities for meaning in my waking life.

But most of all, if I'm honest, I read because it's yummy. And if it's not yummy, I read something else. Screw it, life's too short. I am going to read Gruffalo's Child aloud. To myself. With a beer.

Ray Bradbury's reading (and writing) advice can be found here.

''What you’ve got to do from this night forward is stuff your head with more different things from various fields . . . I’ll give you a program to follow every night, a very simple program...''

He suggests reading a poem (though he is rather harsh about modern poetry), a short story and an essay every night before you go to sleep.