Desktop Retreat

Sunday, December 11, 2011

Everyone has his escape, his panacea, drugs, drink, tobacco or, more cheaply and innocently, the steady and almost mechanical habit of reading light fiction.
~Ruth Rendell, One Across, Two Down

3 comments:

Tracy said...: Reading is definitely my drug of choice - though any fiction (or even non-fiction), not necessarily light fiction.; December 11, 2011 at 5:30 PM
Trish said...: Yes, 'light fiction' has a place, but certainly heavy fiction and non-fiction are just as necessary for me.; December 11, 2011 at 7:14 PM
laughingwolf said...: what tracy said... and you, trish :); December 13, 2011 at 9:53 PM

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Guerrilla Reading

Turn off the TV

Turn off the computer

Turn off the game console

Always have a book with you to read ~

~before going to sleep

~before getting up

~in the bathtub

~while waiting for your ride

~while on the bus/train/plane

~while dinner is cooking

~while exercising (audiobooks!)

~while driving (ditto)

~while waiting for an appointment

~while baby is napping

~after kids are in bed

~with kids

~to kids

~while eating lunch

~while eating breakfast

~at the cottage (dock, hammock, screen porch)

~while walking

~while waiting for kids in the mom & dad taxi

~on a park bench

~instead of housework

~in the bathroom

~while on hold on the phone

~on the porch with a cocktail

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