READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 VOL 2 ISSUE 9 JUNE 2015 | Page 16

Summer
Readers
By Anna
Renault
As the
temperatures
start to heat up
across the
United States,
many families
are making
summer time
plans. Some will go on adventurous
vacations while others go to faraway
places to experience fascinating
countries, cultures and activities they
had listed on their bucket-list of “Things I
Want To Do!” And many others will make
simpler plans for 'stay-cations,' those
stay-at-home vacation days. Sadly, there
will be folks who do not have plans for
any type of break from their daily
routines. Are you on one of these
summer plans?
Many of the 'stay-cation' folks will
include reading as part of their downtime activities. Some may even have a

stack of books sitting by the sofa just
waiting for those days when they will
have all day and all night to do nothing
but read. It has been fun to have some
of these folks on my Facebook page. I
love to hear from them about the books
they add to the stack of 'will read during
vacation.' It is quite interesting to
analyze the variety of topics those books
represent. For a few, the books will be
work related. For others, the books will
be their favorite genre – a great
romance, a who-dun-it detective/murder
mystery, or that ultra-extreme sci-fi
novel that beckons their spirits away
from the everyday hum-drum routine.
Can you imagine yourself doing nothing
but reading for a full day, weekend or
week?
Several friends have made plans to travel
by plane or train. Both modes of
transportation also provide an
abundance of reading time. What fun it
has been to discuss the desire of this
friend or that one to read a short book
or a longer book with lots of chapters
that provide the perfect stopping point
as they change trains or reach the next