I am one of those people who just has to read. The day doesn't feel complete, and never has, if I don't read before going to sleep. I listen to books in the car, read a book on the bus, and love travelling in a plane just because it gives me extra reading time. I even try to snatch some time at lunch time too.
I try to read as the family watches TV too, but that doesn't always work.
In truth I probably spend far too much time reading.
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I am told that I spend far too much time reading. I don't think it could possibly be true.
Kerrie - We just switched to Daylight Savings time here, which was great! An extra hour a day to read :-). I'm with you, too; I couldn't imagine not reading before I go to sleep. I fit in reading time whenever I can, which is why I love it when I find books that are available onnline, as some are. I haven't an E-reader, so I can't carry books with me, so to speak. But at least online books allow me wherever I am.
You do read a lot. I am amazed at how much reading you do, as do others with mystery blogs.
Try as I might, I can't read so much, especially if I have a lot of tasks at hand.
But I always read before i go to sleep; there must be fiction, particularly of the mystery variety, but not too fast-paced or gory at that hour or I'd be up until I had to start moving.
I had to do something today, which I enjoyed, but thoughts of being home reading were constantly tugging at me...as if I can't be a day without reading.
Any extra time in my day is likely to go to reading as my first preference. I listen to audio books while walking and doing other things that occupy my hands (like housework and driving if I am alone) and I always spend a little time reading at night too. I'm not much of a TV watcher so once the household chores are done of a night I'm more likely to read than anything else. I have been otherwise occupied for the past week or so with a family emergency and so have had hardly any time for reading and have found that hard going.
Reading is a must for me too. I even used to read whilst waiting for the lift at work.
My sister reminds me of a time at a family get-together where the conversation involved something that needed to be done around the house and my husband commented that I could do that in my spare time, to which (according to my sister) I responded, "Oh, I don't have spare time. Everything I do, I do so that I have more time to read."
I don't have a crystal-clear recollection of that exchange, but it sounds like something I would say.
I never feel I am reading to much. No, that is not true. When I was a teen my parents took the family to Hawaii. I was reading a really good book at the time. I spent more time with my nose in the book than I did looking at the Hawaiian scenery. Still, I do not regret it, as the book was that good!
I remember high school days. I would walk down the street, reading at the same time (way before audio books existed), I was late to school because I stayed up late reading.
My parents would try to get me to go out on nice days, but my nose would be buried in a book.
Now I wish I had more time to read.
Some days I think I can't wait to get home to read or finish what I have to do and read, even get through a dvd I'm watching so I can read.
But I can't read as many books as I could years ago when I brought back armfuls of books to the library each week and got another armful.
"Why is your head always stuck in a book"..
I have lived with that phrase all my life...
I make the time anytime and any place to read..
E.H>
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