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Disappearing Act
September 18, 2007
Well guys, did you miss me? Or was it more like, "Didn't I just read that same blog...for like the past 6 days?"
I am now home resting up from a 10 day vacation in a local hospital. Not to worry....everything is just fine. You are all stuck listening to me rant, rave, praise and brag for quite some time yet. (Unless PW pulls the plug on my blog...<grin>) I've got to tell you, though, that I made it a working vacation. You know those fashionable seersucker robes they make you wear? Well, they have huge pockets and I had them loaded with my business cards that I freely gave out to anyone who had an empty hand (although there was the time the guy was transporting his urine sample and I shamelessly plugged my blog while pressing my Beyond Her Book card in his empty hand and asking him what books he'd been reading lately. It's probably not ever a good idea to ask a guy what he's been reading as he's leaving a bathroom...with or without a filled (fully, really) urine container).
So I decided to do a little survey between my manicure and pedicure and asked what people read while away from home in backless gowns. Because, you know, that's the great thing about reading, you can do it wearing anything or nothing at all.
The nurse's station had a copy of Lisa Jackson's Strangers that was making the rounds.
Laurie, 39 (who looked years younger and was nice besides, so I had to hate her) was reading a....nonfiction self-help book! I even offered her my chocolate milk if she would try a suspensful romance, but she said she didn't have time with a 6 year old and a 1 year old. I give her a couple more years to come over to the side of the cool kids.
I even managed to corner the clergy, Hope (real name), who fessed up to listening to Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who Brought Down the House.
Steve, 47 actually had 2 huge books. The first was a about Ships on the Great Lakes. Personally, it looked like a real snoozer to me, but his eyes lit up like Christmas morning as he explained how they were made and what made them work (think an audio version of a Tom Clancy book). The Encyclopedia of Space was even bigger, but it actually looked kind of cool to me. Steve's one of those guys who knows something about absolutely every subject there is. I would definitely have him on my Trivial Pursuit team.
The doctors insisted they only read medical manuals, but I saw them eyeing up my copy of Sex and the Immortal Bad Boy by Stephanie Rowe. (Yes, I'm talking about you Dr. B.)
So tell me, if you knew you were spending a week in the hospital (and were alert enough...don't give me a lot of what ifs about this), which books would you take? I'll tell you what I read tomorrow.
Bottom Line: Keep your cards and candy (except maybe Peanut Butter Cups). When you visit me in the hospital... bring books. No Nonfiction, thank you very much. (wink,wink Laurie)
Posted by Barbara Vey on September 18, 2007 | Comments (10)
