I tried to read while riding my bike.
I successfully read while riding my bike, for almost a year.
Suddenly, I fear for Matilda. The instinct to try it is obviously bred in the bone, but her chances of success are a toss-up.
Simon: I, uh... I never-never shot anyone before. Book: I was there, son. I'm fair sure you haven't shot anyone yet.
'War Stories'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
amych - Sep 27, 2007 9:32:31 am PDT #4027 of 28222
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Susan W. - Sep 27, 2007 9:34:34 am PDT #4028 of 28222
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
I've been known to read while stopped at traffic lights.
My copy of the new Temeraire book was in Federal Way as of yesterday, which means it damn well better be at my house tonight.
Must stop pre-ordering books now that there's a B&N 10 minutes from my house.
lisah - Sep 27, 2007 9:36:21 am PDT #4029 of 28222
Punishingly Intricate
I read the paper as I walk the dog in the morning. Sometimes before it's fully light out so I'm reading by street lamp.
ETA AND it's a sucky paper!
askye - Sep 27, 2007 9:39:31 am PDT #4030 of 28222
Thrive to spite them
I read at stop lights too! Only long ones, though.
I have reading material in the bathroom, I don't have a magazine rack or anything, but I usually have something that I can look through.
Connie Neil - Sep 27, 2007 9:40:24 am PDT #4031 of 28222
brillig
I once saw two people reading Deathly Hallows as they walked in one day. This pleased me.
Kathy A - Sep 27, 2007 9:52:04 am PDT #4032 of 28222
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
I've been known to read while stopped at traffic lights.
And this is unusual? Doesn't everybody? You have to have some reading material in the car, otherwise you have nothing to do when the freight train goes by except listen to the radio or count railcars (which I've done).
Polter-Cow - Sep 27, 2007 9:53:14 am PDT #4033 of 28222
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I can't read in thirty-second bursts, though.
Susan W. - Sep 27, 2007 9:53:18 am PDT #4034 of 28222
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Well, I almost never have to wait for trains where I live, so usually I don't have to stop for more than a minute or two tops.
askye - Sep 27, 2007 10:00:15 am PDT #4035 of 28222
Thrive to spite them
I read through those really long lights and the drive home, through down town where people love to pull up into the intersection, so sure that the lane will clear before the light change, only to have the light change and then have to wait and wait until the intersection clears up.
And when I'm going home from the library, I'll read even though the traffic isn't bad, but new books! how can I not immediately delve into them?
Sue - Sep 27, 2007 10:02:39 am PDT #4036 of 28222
hip deep in pie
And when I'm going home from the library, I'll read even though the traffic isn't bad, but new books! how can I not immediately delve into them?
I almost got run over by someone reading a book as they pulled out of the library parking lot.
If I see someone reading, eating, shaving while their driving, I'm likely to yell "Pay attention to the fucking road!" at them.