NO TV? READ!

I am a reader, I always have been, always will be.  If there is a spare moment and a random book, my nose will be stuck in it.  I come by this naturally, my mom read to us as children and when she had spare time read for herself. As a result we are all readers. With no TV at the beach, blissfully my days always end in a book.

I am not sure exactly what type of reader I am.  I do know what type of reader I am not.  I don't normally go for Harlequin type romances, and the books with two beautiful folks on the front with long flowing hair, big muscles, tiny waist standing on a rock by the sea never catch my attention.  I am lucky enough to have a great love story so reading that genre gets boring.

I have to confess right now...I did read the Fifty Shades trilogy to see what the hype was about. I am undecided about this genre also.  I read it on my tablet so know one could judge me.  It was also in every third beach chair in Cabo.  I think the whole world read it. While very titillating, the thought of being tied up and whipped every night just makes me tired imagining that. Plus, it is so hard to hide all the hooks and tracks in the ceiling!  I am just sure my adult children would have some comments on those additions to our decor.  They hate any reference to how they came to be in the first place and any comments about present day parental dalliances are met with downright nausea.


I do love mystical type books. My sisters and I spent a week at the beach racing through the final Harry Potter. We all cried when Dobby died and then discussed it at great length.  I love the way Rowling writes. You just know she has boxes of info on each character and could spend the rest of her writing days turning these into books.

 I was happy to find a series of books by Sarah Addison Allen.  There are three Garden Spells, The Sugar Queen, and The Peach Reaper.  The books center around a main character that is slightly out of step with society.  Each book is a story unto itself and stands alone.  The cover caught my eye and was a fun, fairly quick read. Good prevails, bad gets it in the end, and somewhere in there a kiss or two might get planted

I am now in the middle of a Jimmy Buffet book that I am struggling to finish.  My interest just isn't there.

So I read on.  Watch much less TV, thank heavens!  I didn't even realize there was a hurricane in the Gulf until it was right up on us.  I can't tell you what the Kardashians are up to and I just found out what a Honey Boo Boo is.

I went looking at my every day shopping place...Amazon...and found some great prices. I never shopped much at Amazon until we started traveling.  Meeting up with expats teaches you a thing or two about living in a foreign country.  Amazon was one of those things.  Take a suggestion and read on!