Booking Through Thursday: Bookless

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The question for today from the Booking Through Thursday site is:

It happens even to the best readers from time to time… you close the cover on the book you’re reading and discover, to your horror, that there’s nothing else to read. Either there’s nothing in the house, or nothing you’re in the mood for. Just, nothing that “clicks.” What do you do?? How do you get the reading wheels turning again?

I honestly can’t imagine that ever happening. I have a stack of books waiting to be read, a few more on the shelves for “some day,” and several magazines piled up. I also have a list of books to check out compiled from other people’s reading lists that I have seen on the Spring Reading Challenge or on people’s sidebars.

I always have to-be-read non-fiction, which takes me longer to slog through, and there have been times I have no new fiction in the house (I’m usually into a couple of books at the same time, one of them always fiction). Then I might go to the Christian bookstore and just look around and see what looks interesting. I also have some I want to reread, like Jan Karon’s Mitford series, so that’s another possibility.

And…sometimes I just need to give reading a break and do something else. But those breaks don’t usually last long.

I forgot about the last couple of Booking Through Thursdays — I actually read the questions and planned to think about it and answer later — and then forgot. They had to do with whether we read in public or not and why, and where would we not read. Sure, I read in public — why not? It helps pass the time, especially in places like doctor’s offices, airports and airplanes, etc. Sometimes I’ll read if I am eating by myself in public because I feel awkward sitting there alone — but sometimes it would feel more awkward to open a book in a restaurant. But I usually try to avoid eating out alone.

Choosing not to read in public has more to do with appropriateness or rudeness rather than location: I wouldn’t read a book in church (except the Bible passage while the preacher is reading it. ) or at a play or concert or speech where I am supposed to be there to listen to what’s going on. And even in airplanes and doctor’s offices, sometimes it is rude to keep my nose in a book and ignore someone next to em who is trying to strike up a conversation.

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