Favorite Reading Spot

Where do you do most of your reading?
Your favorite spot?

(And yes, I understand that these might not be the same thing–your favorite spot could be the beach, but you do most of your reading at home . . . in which case, tell me about both!)


It's kind of ridiculous, but I do almost all of my reading while I'm blow drying my hair in the morning. My hair is completely uncooperative. I've got a full-on mane of fine, frizzy hair. Consequently, I have to blow dry it, round brush it, straighten it, and plead with it every morning to get it to look half decent. The only way that I've found to make this bearable is to read while I do it. It takes a little bit longer, but it's worth it. Every morning I take my blow dryer into the spare bedroom and that is where I read! (I would do it in our bathroom, but it wake's up Spenc.)

Where would I like to do most of my reading? On the beach. In one of those comfy looking beach chairs. While drinking one of those fruity drinks with the tiny umbrellas in them. That, however, only happens about once every five years or so...so I'll have to stick to my spare bedroom.

P.S. I am still reading, so don't think I've turned into a lazy book-blogger. I'm reading Atlas Shrugged which is over 1100 pages long, so I think I deserve a break. I'm over 700 pages into it and I expect to post my review sometime next week.

Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I have been deathly ill and unable to lift my fingers to type...Okay, not really but I have had a cold and I'm a complete wimp when it comes to being sick. Anyways, on to the review....

Drowning Ruth was….interesting. I definitely didn’t love it, but it was still worth reading. Let’s look at my “good book” qualifications:
1. Interesting Plot? Definitely. The plot was probably the best thing about this book. The author starts the book with a piece of an event but doesn’t reveal what truly happened until the last page. The desire to know what really happened kept me turning the pages until the very, very end.

2. Did it touch me? Am I a different person because I read it? Ehhh…not so much. This book didn’t really strike a chord with me. I mean, it dealt with serious issues, but not in a way that touched my heart.

3. Was the writing beautiful? Again, not so much. It wasn’t bad writing, by any means. However there were very few places where I stopped to “Hmm, what a lovely phrase”…or…"That is an amazing metaphor!” Yeah, there wasn’t much of that.

4. Were the characters easy to relate to? Were they believable? The author did a great job with the characters. Besides the plot, they were what made me keep reading. Each character was so complex and real. Also, the relationships between the characters were very interesting. Because of the characters alone, I would say that this book is worth reading.

Ultimately, I think that this book would be a great one to rent from the library and take on a vacation. It’s not one that I would want to buy or recommend to my literature-nerd friends, but it was an attention-grabbing book that would be perfect for a long plane ride or day on the beach.