Day 323 of the "What are you reading, and why?" project, and it was a busy day at the bookstore, and I have a general answer to the "Why?" question right now--which is, "Because I have time!" That is, to cuddle up with a book or hunker down with a stack of books during a little holiday time off work or while visiting, etc. This is based on the stacks of books that locals and out-of-towners were buying at Babbitt's today!
But a really interesting other answer was "to have something to read between games in the high school basketball tournament," an answer I understand because I read between matches at volleyball tournaments.
This woman will be reading a collectable copy of The Land of the Blessed Virgin: Sketches and Impressions of Andalusia, by William Somerset Maugham. Not the copy pictured here, with its very lovely illustration, but a skinny red paperback from Alfred A. Knopf.
Turns out this is something my mom could read on her new Kindle if she wanted to, but I imagine she won't. And I feel honored and lucky now to be able to imagine this lovely woman reading about Andalusia and other women of Spain in between whistles on the bleachers....
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
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Day 323! You're in the home stretch!
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