As regular readers may have noticed, my free books roundup hasn’t been posted every day since Monday. The reason for this is that I am on a much needed vacation. A reading vacation.
Every time I go on vacation, I always bring along a few books to read, and usually look for local book stores to pick up more. Particularly when I am in a foreign country. I am in a not very foreign country at the moment, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, where the books aren’t so different and I’m not really making a point to look for books.
But I digress. What’s a reading vacation? It’s pretty simple. I grab a number of books off my to be read
stack, rent a room at a hotel/motel/bed & breakfast, and go off and do very little except read. Maybe a little sight-seeing, but not always.
Since Wednesday I’ve been at the Shady Shores Beach Resort near unincorporated Bowser, on the east side of Vancouver Island. It’s right on the beach, looking over the Strait of Georgia. Shady Shores sports a hot tub which has a nice view of the water as well. It’s not a resort like one would find on a Caribbean beach or even in nearby Parksville. No spa. No restaurant (and no room service). Just seven or eight rooms and the hot tub. I’m not sure what the difference between a resort
and a motel
is.
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- Shady Shores beach cottage deck
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- Tide pools on the beach by Shady Shores Beach Resort.
It’s very relaxing. Perfect for just sitting back and reading. I finished off a couple of books I’d started before leaving, and read two more (one review still coming).
I very much enjoy these vacations. Sure I could read at home. But there’s always the temptation to get up and clean. Or visit my mom. Or take care of something that needs to be taken care of. Here, not so much. Just me and a good book. Or rather, a laundry basket of books.
This is something I’ve always joked about doing, but never managed! And like you, if at home, always manage to end up doing something else, even if I’d rather be reading!
Enjoy yourself!
I just had an enforced non-reading vacation. In other words, I was on a reading slump. Nothing held any interest for me.
I think that just means your TBR pile is not big enough. This is my excuse as to why mine is at over 400 books. When it’s that big, theoretically there should always be something I want to read in it.