Readers! Come at me…

Bookmarks or dog eared pages? Controversial, I know. Just the same as is listening to an audio book, still reading?

What’s your take?

This photo is a few years old if you can’t tell! At a time when there was less wrinkles…

I love listening to audio books because I drive so much. I’ve always got three or four lined up, one after the other. I’ve just finished listening to Karin Slaughter’s new one, The Secrets We Hide. Wow! Mind blown. If you like murder and mayhem with a whole lot of darkness thrown in, but with an out-loud laugh every so often, then Karin’s books are for you.

And I’ve also listened to The year of Nothing by Emma Gannon. Emma talks about burnout and how she managed to heal herself. I have to admit, I heard a lot of myself in that book; especially with a lot of symptoms I’d put down to menopause. Emma’s words made me take a good long look at my life and how I can avoid what she went through.

And while we’re on the on the subject of subject of is listening reading, if you are in the no camp, I really want you to consider this: did you'r parents read to you when you were children? Was that being ‘read a book’? If so, why isn’t that reading?

Now as for dog eared pages or bookmarks…

I am a heathen. Ever since I was a little girl, I’ve dogeared the corners of books. I’ve been given beautiful bookmarks, cheap and nasty bookmarks and I even giveaway bookmarks at some of the events I do, but I do ever use one? Nope. Never. And sometimes, if I’m really tired at night I place the book, pages down and still open on my bedside table.

I understand if some of you now feel the need to unfollow me.

Well, actually I won’t, but I’ll take it on the chin.

Okay, third and final question:

Where is your spot to read?

When I was a kid, I was pretty flexible and nothing really hurt inside my body. I could lie on the floor on my stomach, sit in a tree, curl up on the couch or read in bed. I could even read in the car.

These days? Everything hurts too much for all of the above, except for sitting in a car. I’ve been lucky and never had motion sickness. So I find these days (God, that makes me sound old) it’s easier to sit on a chair or a couch to read. Even lying in bed I can only do for a short time before my back starts to hurt. But read I will, because that and writing is what I was put here on earth to do.

Now one final thing. Shadow and I have been getting into quotes this week. Actually, I’ve always loved a good quote. And no one lives a life when we get to my age, where someone, or a circumstance hasn’t hurt us. Or made us felt like we’ve been rolled and pummelled into the ground.

If you’re feeling like this today, then this is for you.