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dreadpiratekelMark Each Year in Books: Thoughts on Reading Traditions, Molly Templeton @ tor.com
You can also do this on your birthday. The primary activity of any birthday can, or could be, doing precisely what you want to and nothing else; if what you want to do is read, to be waited on while you turn pages and nibble petit fours or grapes or Skittles or whatever, that can be a tradition. I did this a couple of years in a row with Expanse books, but now I’m out of those and will have to come up with something different. (Those books really do lend themselves to sitting down and reading in giant, tasty chunks, though.)
A bit against my will I found myself doing this this birthday. At the time I was annoyed - I had wanted to go out and shop, and restaurant food but ... in retrospect the weather was crap and laying on my bed and having the dog sleep next to me while I read was ... really nice. I am going to try not just make this a Birthday thing but try and carve a day out a month or every second month to just sit and read through a book. Not feel guilty about anything else just read.
You can also do this on your birthday. The primary activity of any birthday can, or could be, doing precisely what you want to and nothing else; if what you want to do is read, to be waited on while you turn pages and nibble petit fours or grapes or Skittles or whatever, that can be a tradition. I did this a couple of years in a row with Expanse books, but now I’m out of those and will have to come up with something different. (Those books really do lend themselves to sitting down and reading in giant, tasty chunks, though.)
A bit against my will I found myself doing this this birthday. At the time I was annoyed - I had wanted to go out and shop, and restaurant food but ... in retrospect the weather was crap and laying on my bed and having the dog sleep next to me while I read was ... really nice. I am going to try not just make this a Birthday thing but try and carve a day out a month or every second month to just sit and read through a book. Not feel guilty about anything else just read.
