Comments on: Shhh! People are reading.

By: DGLM

DGLM — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:04:42 +0000

That's a really fun idea, Paul! Though the person on the subway probably didn't have to cut off the margins.

Mary, I really wish you'd had that camera!

-Lauren

By: Liz

Liz — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:38:20 +0000

I loved this – made me grin. I am an avid bookwatcher too. As an avid reader I peek, a lot, to see what other people ae reading. I am happy to see that the majority of people I tend to travel with seem to disregard the more popular books and go for anything from classics to fantastically fun comemrcial fiction. It does the heart good!

By: Angie Ledbetter

Angie Ledbetter — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:11:38 +0000

Amen on reading in general. Probably one of the things I did right with my kids, training them to be readers.

By: Mary Witzl

Mary Witzl — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:34:44 +0000

I saw something similar this very evening: a middle-aged woman wearing a vampire mask, sitting on a bench with two teenage kids dressed like Goths. All three of them had books open on their laps and were totally engrossed. And me without a camera.

By: M

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:52:59 +0000

Take that, Philip Roth!

By: thevoice

thevoice — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:48:12 +0000

Goes to show its not the way you get to the written word, but that you have arrived.

By: Paul Greci

Paul Greci — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:33:21 +0000

Thanks,Lauren. A very uplifting post regarding reading.

In my corner of the planet people trim the margins from books to make them lighter so they can take them on mountaineering trips.

When I was on a month long sea kayak trip we had a whole dry-bag full of books that we referred to as, The Library.

Maybe someone on an NYC subway is reading the same book at the same time as someone on the side of a mountain in Alaska.