I have never understood “summer reading.” Why aren’t we doing winter reading? That’s when you are supposed to curl up under a warm blanket and lose yourself in a book. Summer is TACTILE. You are out there just with summer all over you. You have to wash it off at the end of the day, you know? There is no sitting inside with books during a northern summer.
I can’t seem to hold still in SW Michigan’s summer. It’s the high holy season and I need to be out in it, at all times. You should see my tan. But I also love a bandwagon, and if everyone is doing “summer reading” I want to be part of the craze. If I am sitting and reading, I’m not riding. So, I decided to get a subscription to Audible and see if I could stand to listen to narrators to get my books read. So far it has been really, really brilliant. I’m used to the narrators now, and enjoy them. I end up doing longer rides because I will be at some riveting part in the plot and need to know what happens next, and I keep pedaling. Good for mind AND body. If you can be on bike paths instead of roads, all the better because you are free to let your mind wander. Do not attempt this if you are not adept at multitasking! I’m sure I miss a detail or two because riding and reading is distracting, but mostly I’m tracking. In case anyone else was wondering how to have it all, here’s my hot tip. Happy summer reading, not summer SITTING and reading! I just finished All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker and loved it. Starting The God of the Woods now. Both thrillers, if you wanted a recommendation. Leah -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/41f34ef9-313e-4ae6-b37c-bcf05a9b696bn%40googlegroups.com.
