Today’s question is suggested by Carrie.
What’s the most desperate thing you’ve read because it was the only available reading material?
If it was longer than a cereal box or an advertisement, did it turn out to be worth your while?
Gosh, I don’t think I’ve ever gotten desperate for something to read. I have a pretty good library branch not a mile from my house, so during their open hours, that is an option. The biggest factor is that I now keep a fairly decent TBR pile here at my house. I don’t like ending a book at 10:30 PM and not having another one lined up to read, you know?! Also, I subscribe to several magazines, and I have a pretty significant stack of those here at the ready, for me to read. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever run out of anything to read or not had something available.
Now, I have been known to read a cereal box or two in my time, though 🙂 Daily paper too, and most anything else I can get my hands on. But, these days, I try to always have a book with me, or something to read. Especially if I know I’m going to be somewhere that I might need to wait. I try to always be prepared 🙂
Happy Reading!
Being stranded somewhere without reading material is the worst! Sounds like you’re a wise woman who brings a book with her wherever she goes… good for you!
Mine’s up here.
A wise woman indeed. I just need a larger purse so I can be wise too. Hehe. I’d be sick if I was caught stranded without reading material.
I am desperate if I’m reading People, or some other celebrity thing. I also read Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity (jr high version) once. It’s ever worth while to me to read the celebrity junk, but I did learn a lot about ole Al.
oops–that’s supposed to be ‘never worth while’, not ever.
I get desperate at times and have resorted to reading instructions on cans of cleaner, etc. Usually, that’s in the bathroom. :blush:
Or, I’ll often stop for lunch or a snack at a restaurant whenever I’m out shopping alone. Since I didn’t plan to be stopping, I don’t have any reading material, so I’ll sit there and read the little advertising cards on the table…I know all about all the deserts and mixed drinks at O’Charley’s, for example! 😛
You’re just like me then, I like to have plenty of options when I finish a book so now I keep a TBR pile at home and I won’t have to buy a book for a whole year if I didn’t want to..too bad I always want new books.
*sigh*
I haven’t been desperate to read anything in quite a while but I do remember times when I was…and they were always when I was at the doctor’s office.
Happy BTT!
I tihnk it’s pretty desperate to read that insert in the box of tampons ’cause you forgot to bring a magazine with you to the bathroom. Not that I’ve ever resorted to that or anything…. 😉
Ah ha! I see Cam understands what I’m talking about! heeee!
Hi Stacy, I agree it’s always good to have a book handy!
Happy BTT!
I don’t think I’ve ever come across that either.
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