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Bedside Reading

I do not read enough, not nearly enough. I have always been a reader and loved books, book shops and libraries. The internet, blogging and having an online business all detract  from reading time. They get in the way of and also almost replace picking up a good book. Any spare moments when in the past I may have sat with a novel are now non existent. I am on my laptop constantly. My Easter resolution was to read a novel so I gathered a little collection to sit beside my bed and I started a novel. I thoroughly enjoyed holding the book  and casting aside the computer for the short time before I fell asleep. Reading before dropping off to sleep is meant to be way better for you, more relaxing than staring at a flickering screen. This novel that I commenced is part of a series and I have read others by this author . It is light reading and written in a sort of innocent style, just perfect to heave beside the bed.

My Favourite Magazine

I subscribe to Donna Hay magazine and it never disappoints. It always has the most winning cover making me long to open it. The recipes are on the whole easy and the food photos always look delicious. Donna Hay has branched into lots of culinary merchandise and has just beautiful cooking utensils and mixing bowls plus, now,  a range of cake mixes . The cake mixes are very upmarket in their packaging, very expensive to buy and only available at a handful of gourmet stores. I have had one personal experience with her chocolate brownies and they really were in the 'best ever' category.

Bedside Reading

I have always loved to read, maybe it has something to do with my mother being a librarian. Over the past few years I have not read enough, regretfully. Too much time on the laptop, I fear, is the cause. I want to improve on this in 2011. I am thoroughly enjoying 'The Help' by Kathryn Stockett currently. It is a US bestseller, set in the 60's and written mainly in the vernacular of Mammy in Gone With the Wind. My children are big readers too and I know S is loving 'Brisinger' by Christopher Paolini as I have seen it lying round the house a lot keeping her company on the couch. I am enjoying mine so much I even took it to work today to read at lunchtime which is a far cry from the Who Weekly type of thing found in our tea room that I often peruse mindlessly.