Reading in the New Year?

[Chrystal]

Is anyone else out there reading in the New Year? My husband has to get up early in the morning, so I'm sure that he'll surely be in bed before midnight. And my children have had a busy day today so they will probably be asleep early too. So that leaves me up all by myself. I'll probably wrap up in a warm blanket and try to finish My Sister's Keeper. Just curious to know if I would be the only one reading in the New Year.

[Laura]

whats ginger wine like fiona? we have ginger ale here, it's like sprite, a light colored soda.

[Laura]

Me too Chrystal! Anne of Green Gables is a real page-turner! I may not be able to tear myself away.

[Jensownzoo]

I always read in the new year. Really too dangerous anymore to do much else with the drunks and people shooting off guns at midnight. What better way to start out the new year than reading anyhow?

[Laura]

ok ginger wine sounds worth a try

here i live smack dab in the middle of gun country but people light off fireworks at midnight.

[Mosca]

I live in a small village in northern New Mexico(USA). Here there will be some firecrackers; and some folks will likely fire a rifle or two into the air for the noise. And there will probably be drunks on the highways.

Like Jensownzoo, I will stay at home and read. For me it is "The Time Traveler's Wife". Reading in the new year seems a good choice.

[Heather]

I'm reading this evening too. I started Snow Flower and the Secret Fan today - so far it's riveting. I thought about hanging out with my parents this evening, but like everyone else here I want to avoid all the drunks who out driving.

[Becky]

I will be reading in the new year, which will be in about an hour and a half.

I just got home from work, and already the crazies and the drunks and the stupids were out in force on the streets, so I will be keeping myself nice and safe indoors, finishing up The Amber Spyglass! :)

Hope everyone has a safe and happy new year!

[Donna]

I've been curled up with The Private Patient for most of the evening but my husband just opened a bottle of the bubbly to toast in the New Year in about an hour. Champagne, a great husband, and a good book. I can't think of anything better.

Happy New Year!

[Julianne]

Yeah, it looks like I'll be reading in the new year--but I'll be opening up a bottle of champagne to go along with. I don't usually drink alcohol and read simultaneously, mostly I have a hard enough time not nodding off in the evenings without the alcohol (a 2 year old will do that to you).

We've had terrible wind today and our power's gone off 3 times already, so I may be reading with champagne and by candlelight (how romantic!!)

[Becky]

OK, so I didn't end up actually reading in this new year. My boyfriend and I went to a friends house and watched "Alias" on DVD. (Really good show by the way, I'd never seen it.)

Our friend lives about a 1/2 mile away, but it was snowing so I drove, and on the way back some girl almost side-swipes me coming out of a gas station with her lights off! (Figures, right?) I avoided her, but then she pulls into the left turn lane next to me, and at the light I'm motioning to get her to turn her lights on (trying to be the good Samaritan and prevent her from killing someone!) and she flips me off! Luckily, the person in the passenger seat understood what I was getting at and got her to turn the lights on, but I was like "This. This is why I don't go out on New Years Eve." *sigh*

[Jeane]

When everybody goes in the centre of the cities to celebrate drink and shou...we stay home and lsiten to the firework outside, watch New Year in Italy and Belgium and then follow it in London.
We watched two movies and ater that I catched up my not done reading of that day. Had been to much on here and playing on the computer...so read a bit.


When I used to be at university my mother would get angry at me on christmas and new year
s eve because I would be in my room continue my preparations for the exams after the holidays. She would always scream I had to come downstairs.

[Robin]

It was cold and VERY windy here in VA so we did stay in and I read. Hubby came down a few minutes before midnight we saw th ball drop - did our first kiss then 10 minutes later we were both back reading our respective books.

-- Wife of GR author Michael J. Sullivan: The Crown Conspiracy (10/08) | Avempartha (04/09)

[Susanna - Censored by GoodReads]

I read in the new year (with Eleanor of Aquitaine, which I am enjoying).

There were firecrackers going off most of the evening, more heavily than the rest of the last week. I live in South Carolina, where they are legal and a lot of folks can't or won't celebrate holidays without them. My cat had her paws over her ears with a "make it stop!" expression on her face, for most of the evening.

[Jensownzoo]

Legalities did not stop the people in my city from shooting off fireworks, although I do admit that there were fewer gunshots this year. The police chief did have a "fun without guns" campaign that pointed out that what goes up has to come back down, so maybe that helped?

I read in the new year with American Nerd: The Story of My People which I had checked out from the library yesterday.

[Becky]

Wow... That gravity, it's a tricky bugger! ;)

[Chrystal]

Susanna-I also live in SC and my neighbors waited until midnight to start shooting fireworks. Thankfully they didn't wake the kids!

[Lori, Super Mod]

I finished Sookie #5 15 minutes before the ball drop, and started Still Life With Woodpeckers before my eyes did some dropping of thier own... hee hee....

I have been reading on and off all day tho!

[Jeane]

Isn't it great to spend Christmas Eve with a book, some movies, some food, something to keep you awake... and then after 2009 starts, in bed!