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Not really. In fact I don’t think I have much of a reading routine at all. When I was a kid I would lay in bed and just devour books. Now I just read wherever and am driven too often by blogger deadlines. When I retire I’ll have a lot more time to read and relax. That’s what I think anyway. 🙂
What about you? Do you have any kind of reading routine?
I love to read and write book reviews in my free time. I review advance review copies of books on Netgalley for various publishers. I am also a reviewer for Historical Novels Review Magazine, the magazine of the Historical Novel Society. I review books from publishers of all size, large to small. I have a special place in my heart for indie authors. I will sometimes post a little writing that I might dabble in occasionally. I also am lucky enough to live in the Smoky Mountains, so I'll be sharing photos of the beauty around me from time to time.
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16 thoughts on “Book Blogger Hop: Do you have a reading routine?”
Like you, when I worked, I read whenever I had a few spare minutes. I looked forward to retirement when I could read whenever I wanted. Well, that isn’t how it worked out. And the first two years of retirement I hardly read at all. Then I made a pact with myself that I would read at least an hour every day. So now I make myself a cup of tea mid-afternoon and sit outside on my terrace and read almost every day. I also take my book with me to the pool and read there in the summer. I guess you do need to schedule reading in or you won’t get to do it!
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That sounds like a nice reading hour.
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I don’t have a reading schedule, either. I just fit it in around all the other things that are scheduled.
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I hope when I’m retired that nothing is scheduled for a couple months!
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I have to get back to more reading. I find blogging does take up a lot of time.
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It really does
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Yes, it does.
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When I was still active duty (military) I never went anywhere without a book. The old adage of “hurry up and wait” was specially coined for the military. No matter what I was doing or where I was going there was always a waiting period, easily filled with a book. I read at lunch and during any break I had in the day. I still carry a book with me when I go to appointments and now I can read whenever I want and spend many hours a day reading. If I am slogging through a book that Im not especially riveted by, I spend a few minutes before I fall asleep at night reading, otherwise I finish a book in a day or so and am constantly on the hunt for something else to read.
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And you used to finish it even if you hated but I think you’ve learned to let go of truly awful ones lately.
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It has to be a truly awful book for me to let go of it. I always hold out hope that it will get better. I just quit on the second book of a 5 book “series” after holding my nose through the first book. The beginning of the second book showed zero improvement so I punched out and didn’t look back.
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I always read when I go to bed, but I don’t have any particular routine associated with it.
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I think I would like the idea of a routine, but it will probably never happen.
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I’m in the same boat!
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No I don’t. I read about one book per week but it’s just spontaneous. When I was young, a student, I had to have a reading routine to keep up with classes.
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Not really. I tend to read a lot in bed before I go to sleep. I’ll often get into bed way before I’m ready to sleep so that I have more time to read!
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I can’t even imagine what a reading routine would look like. Have book, will read!
Like you, when I worked, I read whenever I had a few spare minutes. I looked forward to retirement when I could read whenever I wanted. Well, that isn’t how it worked out. And the first two years of retirement I hardly read at all. Then I made a pact with myself that I would read at least an hour every day. So now I make myself a cup of tea mid-afternoon and sit outside on my terrace and read almost every day. I also take my book with me to the pool and read there in the summer. I guess you do need to schedule reading in or you won’t get to do it!
That sounds like a nice reading hour.
I don’t have a reading schedule, either. I just fit it in around all the other things that are scheduled.
I hope when I’m retired that nothing is scheduled for a couple months!
I have to get back to more reading. I find blogging does take up a lot of time.
It really does
Yes, it does.
When I was still active duty (military) I never went anywhere without a book. The old adage of “hurry up and wait” was specially coined for the military. No matter what I was doing or where I was going there was always a waiting period, easily filled with a book. I read at lunch and during any break I had in the day. I still carry a book with me when I go to appointments and now I can read whenever I want and spend many hours a day reading. If I am slogging through a book that Im not especially riveted by, I spend a few minutes before I fall asleep at night reading, otherwise I finish a book in a day or so and am constantly on the hunt for something else to read.
And you used to finish it even if you hated but I think you’ve learned to let go of truly awful ones lately.
It has to be a truly awful book for me to let go of it. I always hold out hope that it will get better. I just quit on the second book of a 5 book “series” after holding my nose through the first book. The beginning of the second book showed zero improvement so I punched out and didn’t look back.
I always read when I go to bed, but I don’t have any particular routine associated with it.
I think I would like the idea of a routine, but it will probably never happen.
I’m in the same boat!
No I don’t. I read about one book per week but it’s just spontaneous. When I was young, a student, I had to have a reading routine to keep up with classes.
Not really. I tend to read a lot in bed before I go to sleep. I’ll often get into bed way before I’m ready to sleep so that I have more time to read!
I can’t even imagine what a reading routine would look like. Have book, will read!