I can’t help but talk about it, as it’s on my mind. Two reasons (ha! as though I ever needed a reason to think about, talk about, or read books!) come currently to mind: I live in a resort area so am constantly seeing people who are on vacation; and my writing group is looking for new members, and one of the questions we’re asking applicants is what they like to read.
From what I can see, nonfiction is trumping fiction at the beach. Note that this is a small and casual survey, what I’m observing rather than what I’m asking about. But in this election year in the United States, it’s interesting to see some early involvement, with political titles all over the place.
Writing group applicants, on the other hand, are reading fiction; but it’s a skewed sample since they’re interviewing to be part of a group that does fiction and poetry.
I’ve seen a few Kindles, Amazon’s ebook reader, and people seem to be managing with them even outdoors, so the screen resolution and lighting must be superb. Sony Reader, an earlier model, is absent; but there are still few enough ebook readers around to make that observation somewhat moot. I like seeing the ebook readers: unlike many of my colleagues, I don’t think that the sky is falling on the book publishing industry, and I believe that the future is filled with opportunities for people to continue reading: and that’s what matters. How they’ll do it is a matter for the technocrats; all I care about is that we all continue to read, that authors continue to write, and that the world may always, to borrow a phrase from my own book, fly away on its bountiful imagination.
РJeannette C̩zanne
Open Your Heart with Reading
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