Musing Mondays (Oct.4)

This week’s musing asks…

What’s your favorite “cozy” book — and, by that, I’m meaning “curl-up-on-a-cold-day comfort read“? Or, if you don’t have a particular book, what genre do you most feel like reading when the weather starts to turn colder?

For me, it’s not even a genre, or a particular book… when the weather starts turning colder, I start craving chunky books… books over 450 pages.

Right now I’m really looking forward to digging into “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy. This one’s over 900 pages long. But, I already started reading it — a while back — and now my f2f book club has chosen to read it for January, so I’m planning on digging back into it, soon. I’m really glad my book group chose to read it, as it’s good motivation for me to get back to it, and it lets me satisfy my “chunker” craving.

When the weather gets colder, the chunkier books on my shelves start calling to me, too: “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay” by Michael Chabon, “A Short History of Nearly Everything” by Bill Bryson, “A History of Reading” by Alberto Manguel, “The Conjurer’s Bird” by Michael Davies, etc.

I think a lot of this craving is because, with the colder weather, you want to stay with one book for longer… or, at least for me, it’s so. I don’t want to go outside, and the longer I can stay curled up with a book, the better.

I just bought “Halo” by Alexandra Adornetto, and it’s almost 500 pages long. I’m really looking forward to curling up with it, too!

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