Desktop Retreat

Friday, January 20, 2012

The book can produce an addiction as fierce as heroine or nicotine, forcing us to spend much of our lives, like junkies in bookshops and libraries, those literary counterparts to the opium den.
~Philip Adams

4 comments:

Tracy said...: That's me, a confirmed book- addict.; January 22, 2012 at 11:05 AM
laughingwolf said...: adams got it, first time out!; January 26, 2012 at 1:59 AM
Trish said...: I know, right?; January 26, 2012 at 8:54 AM
laughingwolf said...: yup; January 28, 2012 at 3:58 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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