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Reading Two Books at One Time
I'd been reading "Norwegian by Night" by Dennis Miller and was pretty close to finishing it. Then the system got all screwed up. A last minute decision caused me to go out of town for the weekend. The trip involved going from Ojai, California to Laguna Niguel, California a distnace that involves driving between two to three hours depending on the traffic. Usually the freeway between those two points is a nightmare. So my husband and I decided to take the Amtrak down to my daughter's house, a ride that takes about three and a half hours in each direction.
We've taken the Amtrak before and like it a lot. You can make your way to the car that has a little refreshment bar where you can get coffee, sandwiches, chips, etc. And--you can bring along a book or a Kindle to entertain yourself. We bought our Amtrak tickets.
The dilemna was that I didn't have enough reading left on "NorwegianHorowit by Night" to entertain me for seven hours on Amtrak. And I remembered I hadn't even started to read the book I needed to finish by the following Monday. I grabbed my Kindle and started to read "The House of Silk" by Horowitz.
By the time I got home I'd read almost 60% of the book, a Sherlock Holmes story.
I never tried to read two books at one time. I have enough trouble remembering what the book is all about when I've skipped several days in reading the "one" book I'm reading and now I need to remember the back story of "two" books I'm reading. I know other people do that. I'd wish they tell me how they do it.
We've taken the Amtrak before and like it a lot. You can make your way to the car that has a little refreshment bar where you can get coffee, sandwiches, chips, etc. And--you can bring along a book or a Kindle to entertain yourself. We bought our Amtrak tickets.
The dilemna was that I didn't have enough reading left on "NorwegianHorowit by Night" to entertain me for seven hours on Amtrak. And I remembered I hadn't even started to read the book I needed to finish by the following Monday. I grabbed my Kindle and started to read "The House of Silk" by Horowitz.
By the time I got home I'd read almost 60% of the book, a Sherlock Holmes story.
I never tried to read two books at one time. I have enough trouble remembering what the book is all about when I've skipped several days in reading the "one" book I'm reading and now I need to remember the back story of "two" books I'm reading. I know other people do that. I'd wish they tell me how they do it.
