Scavenger Hunt #1: Photo Reading In Unusual Place
by Jenners • 05/20/2009 • Book Talk • 9 Comments
I’m participating in the Good Books Inc. Scavenger Hunt hosted by the lovely and talented girls over at Padfoot and Prongs. The challenge is to complete 10 different book and reading related challenges within a few months. Since the deadline for entries is today, I’m finishing up with my last two entries. I’ve been procrastinating on this particular challenge, which was so silly because it was so easy. Here is challenge #1:
Take a picture of you reading somewhere that is not your house or apt etc. examples park, subway, restaurant etc. Find a new favorite place to be literary.
Anyway — enough with the disclaimers — here is me reading my “car book.” This is the book that I keep in the car to read if I am stuck in the car for any length of time. My “car books” are chosen to be easily picked up and put down and read over a long space of time. My current “car book” is called The Most Wonderful Books: Writers on Discovering the Pleasures of Reading. It was edited by Michael Dorris and Emilie Buchwald. It is a delightful book full of short essays by 57 different contemporary writers about the books and events that made them lifelong readers. I’ve had it as a my car book for about a year (!) and am actually getting close to finishing it (so perhaps you can expect a review pretty soon — even though I probably remember almost nothing of the essays I read a year ago). So, without further ado, here are the photos of me reading my “car book.”
And, yes — I never drive and read at the same time! This is only for when I am stuck somewhere (too early to pick-up at school, waiting for my husband to run a quick errand). Am I the only one who has a car book? Do any of you have a car book too?
I have a car book, and if I happen to finish it when I’m out I turn to the pile of NYT crosswords I have stashed in there. There’s never room for a passenger in my front seat!
Who took the pic for you … did you grab someone walking by?!
I have a car book, too! Well, it is a half car book/half bag book and I carry it with me for waiting in post office lines and for doctor’s appointments and for impromptu visits to the park (in warmer weather, anyway). Nice post!
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I don’t have a ‘car book’, I have a ‘pocketbook book’. I always carry one. If the book is too big for my pocketbook, I change bags!!
I don’t have a car book because I’m a “one-at-a-time” reader but I always grab my current book when I’m going out the door, just in case. I get quite a bit of reading done this way!
I don’t really have a car book but I usually have a book in my purse, especially if I know I’m going to be out of the house for a while. You never know if you’ll find some free time for reading
By the way, I got my book Testimony from your giveaway. Thank you bunches!
Love the photo of you immersed in your book! I’m at the bus stop all the time. When I don’t have the little ones with me, I’ll have my car book ready. I also put a book in the kitchen. Sometimes I’ll read a paragraph or two while chopping up some veggies. Trying to multitask!
Being a taxi driver for my 15-year-old son who plays sports, you’d better believe I don’t go ANYWHERE without a book in my car! Sometimes I’ll even go to school early when I pick him up so that I GET to read in the car.
I sometimes keep a book in the car. When the kids are having baseball practice, it’s a good time to sit in the car and read a few pages.
I HAVE A CAR BOOK!! It is probably borderline dangerous because if I am ever in bad traffic I will pull it out. I should really think about investing in some audio books haha.
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