My life as a reader

I read about this fall blogging challenge on the Dangerously Irrelevant Blog
This weeks post (October 4-10)
What is your life as a reader like? Do you read for work, pleasure, instructions or emails? What is your favorite author and/or genre? What is your favorite reading spot? What did you like to read when you were the age of your students?

So this is the perfect post for a librarian. My life as a reader has many parts. I usually am reading at least three books going at any given time.

There is the book I read on my lunch break at work and during our SSR time. It comes from my library collection and it is chosen to give me something to book talk. Sometimes they are new books. Sometimes they are books that the students have been reading so much that I try to grab it when it's returned on a Friday, so I can start it over the weekend. Currently, my on campus read is The Calculus Diaries.

Then there is the going-to-sleep book. These are my romance novels that I read for 15-30 minutes before I turn out the light at night. I've been reading these books since I was a teenager. I've tried to give up this habit, but somehow they are the brain candy* I need to drift off to sleep.

The third book is usually something weightier, heavier that requires more thinking. This is the book I read on the exercise bike or when I have time on a weekend afternoon to sit and read for an extended period.

I don't really have a favorite reading spot. Curled up on the couch, feet up on the recliner, on the porch on the glider. My favorite author dating back to those teenage years, remains Danielle Steel.


*brain candy is a term another teacher told me about her need to read pocket book mysteries. They have no substance but they satisfy my need to read.