Musing Monday No.7: Reading in motion

Posted July 20, 2015 by Dani in Musing Monday / 1 Comment

It’s time for Musing Mondays, a meme from A Daily Rhythm!

Here are the instructions:

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

  • I’m currently reading…
  • Up next I think I’ll read…
  • I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
  • I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
  • I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
  • I can’t wait to get a copy of…
  • I wish I could read ___, but…
  • I blogged about ____ this past week…

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Are you able to read while in a vehicle (in motion)? Have you always been this way?

If you feel like joining in, don’t forget to let me know in the comments, as well as posting a link in A Daily Rhythm’s comments section so other people can have a read of your thoughts!


I’m currently reading… several books!

I started The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski and Only Ever Yours by Louise O’Neill on Friday and Sunday morning respectively so I didn’t feel too weird about getting the books signed. I love both of them so far, so it’s killing me that I have to put them aside for the Make Me Read It read-a-thon. It has to be done, however, as I will not fail at my first read-a-thon!

So that brings me on to my current, active read: Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard! Yes, this is the first book you all voted for! Fitting, since here’s a photo of me getting into the red limo Orion Publishing organised for me yesterday for winning their #QueenforaDay competition on Twitter. I got to ride it all the way to the final day of YALC, a whole …twenty minutes! 😀

Red Queen limo ride


Are you able to read while in a vehicle (in motion)? Have you always been this way?

I can! In fact, being in cars makes me feel really sick (though nothing ever comes from it, if you know what I mean). Growing up, I had two ways of escaping this: going to sleep (something I was conditioned to do as a baby) or reading.

The ride to school and back when I was in Shanghai could take anywhere between 15 minutes (during public holidays when all the locals went home to their families in the countryside) and 3 hours (during really bad traffic). My friend and I would sit at the front and just read, read, read.

A lot of people have been surprised by this in the past, as they’ve all felt more sick reading, but for me, the reading distracts me. Ok, maybe it doesn’t always work, but I think that depends on how engrossing the book is.

(As an aside, I don’t feel sick in planes or boats, only road vehicles. Is that weird?)

What about you? Can you read while riding in a car or bus?

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One response to “Musing Monday No.7: Reading in motion

  1. I can’t read in cars, as it makes me sick but these days I always take my kindle to appointments where I have to wait, especially if I’m just a companion for my husband. It gives me loads of reading time & is better than the usual Hello magazine.

    I always read on the bus to school but sometimes I missed my stop. Nowadays I frequently fly to Faro & back so my Kindle is indispensable.

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