When do you read? That’s right, not WHAT, but WHEN. One of the reasons my To-Be-Read pile is so big is I find it hard in my busy schedule to actually find TIME to read. I have favorite times when I like to read– at night before bed, in the afternoon before my son gets home from school, on the weekend while my husband watches sports. (Sports on TV is like white noise to me, but if he watches, oh, say Law and Order, then I’m always looking to see who said what, and why are they screaming? and…so forth and so on…Distracting!)
But when I have errands to run, or when my husband has worked late and I hate to leave him alone in the living room while I go off to read elsewhere, or if my weekend gets full of chores or trips or whatever, or when a nap sounds better to me in the afternoon than the book I’m in– reading gets pushed aside. I have a hard time remembering sometimes that reading for me is work. Not that it is difficult, just that it can be considered studying the market, keeping on top of what other authors in the line are doing, etc. I need to read! Yea! I have the perfect excuse…yet I still feel as if I’m slacking off, not getting things accomplished when I sit down with a book. Sigh. So…when do you like to read??
Happy reading!
Beth Cornelison
Glad to see your post
I love to have that rare afternoon where I can curl up and read all afternoon. In reality, since I’ve started working part-time, I find a nice time to read is while I eat breakfast before the rest of the house stirs or on my break time at work.
I have been sneaking in some long bubble baths at night – usually four or five chapters worth of time. That’s pretty relaxing — though I end up a wrinkled prune…
~Margo
Ever since I started to get serious about writing, I find myself reading less and less. I’ve blamed it on the fact that I also have another full time job, but I wonder if this is just an excuse. I guess, I could use lunch time, at work, to eat up a few chapters.
Got it! Thanks a lot again for hielpng me out!
I found that I read less when I started writing too. Only so many hours in the day after all! I can’t read in the morning…that’s my best writing time and writing time is precious to me. And I’m afraid if I start something really engrossing, I’ll be late for an appointment or something!
Beth C