Reading Like a Wolf Eats

I laughed when I saw this photo of Stephen King and immediately made it my laptop wallpaper for the week. In a week I’ll be escorting a group of high schoolers to a Colorado Rockies game, and this gives me an idea of what I can do while I’m there since I’m unbearably bored by professional baseball.

Some people, aka my husband, complain about my incessant reading. My adorable and amazing mentor says I’m the most voracious reader he’s ever worked with.

It’s my escape, though. I don’t watch much TV–ignore the fact that I’m currently watching The Presidents on the History Channel and that I’m in love with The Borgias. Or maybe I decided I would be in love with them, so I am.

But I read books the way some people watch movies or landscape yards or fix-up cars or whatever else people do in the spare time. It’s my way to unwind, to relax, to get away from the world.

I think it was Gary Paulsen who wrote “Read like a wolf eats.” He also said in his memoir to read constantly, even while you’re eating, if you want to be a good writer. Lucky for me, I’ve been reading during my meals since I was about 12, or at least when it wasn’t a “family meal.”

And thanks to SK, I know what I’ll be doing next Monday, April 18th, when the Rockies are playing whoever they’re playing.

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