Seasons
We wear different clothes in different seasons. We even change our clothes for specific tasks and for social occasions at different times of day.
We not only eat different foods in different seasons, we also cook the same ingredients differently. The same vegetables can be in hot soups in the winter and in cold salads in the summer. Coffee and tea can be served hot or iced.
Of course, we play differently, depending on the time of the year. Winter sports are created for snow; summer sports require oceans.
We work differently, too. Spring is for planting and fall is for harvest.
Do we read differently?
I read newspapers in the morning, heavier materials during the day (work reading), lighter materials in the evening (cookbooks and magazines), and skim the newspapers again at night.
I did not know this until I thought about it. I did not think about it until I wrote this post. I certainly never planned to read this way. But for the most part, it’s how I read.
I read a lot of poetry in the winter. I love poetry because it is short and intense. I like it to scan, to have rhyme, meter, and richness. Somehow it gives my soul what it needs when my soul feels weak or empty, which it generally does during the winter.
I read challenging books in the fall. Books which threaten me, open me, bring me face to face with moral truths, and which make me admit my own failures and losses. Fall is an energizing time. Even at my age, I still want to buy new pencils and a new navy blue skirt every fall.
I read books on health, food, fashion, lifestyle, and decorating in the spring. Maybe it’s because the return of the sun shows both dust and wrinkles. But if someone could print out my library records for the past ten years, that’s what those records would show.
And I read novels, action stories, romances, and detective stories in the summer. I am the woman lying on the beach towel, next to the pile of standard summer reading, except that I have no beach towel. I have a yoga mat, which came “free” with a Pilates book. I can unroll it onto my small cement patio, in the sun, and I can unroll myself onto it. I have a very large, very old pale green cotton sunhat, which looks just awful, and a cat who sits on a comfortable chair next to my mat.
Sasha Bailey is the author of Torts, an erotic story about the darker side of human nature.
It’s a good, quick summer read, even for those who have neither a mat nor a cat.
It is published by Eternal Press. Ms. Bailey can be reached at SashaBailey@ymail.com and Torts can be bought in paperback or eBook at http://www.Amazon.com and in eBook at:
Eternal Press, http://eternalpress.ca/
Mobipocket, http://www.mobipocket.com/
Books on Board, https://www.booksonboard.com/
Cyberread, https://www.cyberread.com/
Payloadz, http://store.payloadz.com/
All Romance EBooks, http://www.allromanceebooks.com/
Fictionwise, http://www.fictionwise.com/
CoffeeTime Romance Store, http://www.coffeetimeromance.com/
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Hi Sasha,
Thanks for coming today. I love your cover.Who designed it?
Raine D.
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Nice article, Sasha…I never thought about my reading habits before now, but they’re quite different from yours, which of course is what makes the world go round….Difference….Tabs
I only have twice a year when I read certain types of books–Christmas and Halloween. I want to read books set during those times or for Halloween something scary (but not too scary) or vampire.