Although I didn't get around to posting my August month in numbers, Julie has inspired me with her invitation to "pick up the gauntlet" and spill my reading habits (read here for how she came to be tagged). What better way to get back to blogging than to chronicle one of my most favorite activities! So, here's how it goes:
Q: Do you have a certain place at home to
read?
A: No one place, although I do tend to read alot in bed before putting out the light at night. Fact is, every room in the house (yes, including the loo) is fair game for me to be found reading. I also read in the garden; wherever there's shade when it's hot and in the sunshine when it's cooler.
Q: Reading at home or everywhere?
A: Mainly at home but I take a book with me when we are on the road for any length of time, to the doctor's office or anyplace I know requires a wait, to the rodeo (high school rodeos are often long, drawn-out affairs - sort of like watching paint dry . . .), on the bus, etc.
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| The Tooele City Library - my favorite place to get reading material. |
A: Neither. If Clare has the TV on, I go to another room and if there's music I get distracted and want to sing along.
Q: Do you eat or drink while reading?
A: Most assuredly! If I didn't eat and drink while reading, I'd be very, very hungry and thirsty!
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| To the library and then the coffee shop; natural order of things! |
A: Both. I've read numerous books aloud all the way through to Clare (To Kill a Mockingbird, True Grit, Lonesome Dove, The Hearts of Horses, to name a few). He is more of a technical material reader and so my reading a book aloud is a way for both of us to be entertained, on road trips especially. I also have loved reading aloud to my grands and greats - this gives me an opportunity to really pull out all the animated stops! Mostly, though, I read silently in my head.
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| Me reading a book aloud while we were camping in August. |
A: Generally, I read one book at a time, especially those I check out of the library. However, I read my Bible everyday, along with a daily devotional. I have a stack of books in my bedside table that I pick up now and again and I also have books on my IPad Kindle that I sometimes read simultaneously with whatever hardbound book I'm reading.
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| My everyday read. |
A: I can stop reading sometimes mid-sentence; for instance, when my name is called, the timer goes off, or the lights go out. I usually, though, try to read to the end of a chapter or paragraph.
Q: Bookmark or random piece of paper?
A: My Bible has a bookmark that's been there for years. For library books I use the due date receipt for a bookmark and for books I own or have borrowed from a friend I use an envelope, a grocery list, yes . . . a random piece of paper. Which is dumb really because I have quite a few very crafty and unique bookmarks that I've accumulated over the years. I never, never, never turn down page corners!
Q: Do you ever read ahead or skip pages?
A: Sometimes, but guiltily!
Q: Do you ever write in books?
A: I write in my Bible but never in other books unless I'm "altering" them which is a whole other ball game. If there is something I want to remember, I write it in my journal, on a scrap of paper, a napkin, a post-it note, whatever; or, I take a picture with my phone!
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| This passage, beginning at the top of the page, is appropriately, about books and how important they are! |
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| She was oblivious of me taking this photo! |
I *loved* this Hazel!! I'm so pleased you picked up the tag gauntlet.
ReplyDeleteSo much to enjoy - starting with the fact you too obviously had a back log of book-related photos to use.
It amazes me that we may live far apart but everything here is *just the same* as my experience! Libraries look like libraries, 'things' get tucked into books to mark a place, big books need balancing out with a hot drink!
And - until you mentioned it - I'd forgotten entirely about how I too have read aloud on long car journeys!
Thanks for joining in - I hope others pick up the book and run with it!!
Julie x
p.s: I'll await the mail with great interest! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI've much enjoyed journeying through your reading habits, and spotting where I say 'Me too!' and where there are differences. That's a very tranquil photo of you in the garden with a book - the one place I find it hard to read because the weeds and straggly lawn keeps calling to me :).
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