It’s June. That means two things.
1) SUMMER
2) It’s time for me to read an epic Stephen King novel.
Every summer when June rolls around and things slow down (things used to slow down when I was in school — now they speed up because I work in the children’s department), I grab yet another massive Stephen King novel from my bookshelf. There’s always one ready to go because I have a slight addiction to buying books. (I buy an average of three a week… that’s normal, right?)
This year I’m reading Bag of Bones.
Scary, huh?
It’s alright. My favorite thus far has been It. You just can’t get better than scary clowns. You just can’t.
There are some rules to my tradition:
1. The book must be started no earlier or later than the last week of May.
2. The book must be at least 500 pages long.
3. It must be read by the end of June.
This third thing is very important. Because when June wraps up, I have a few weeks to read whatever I want, and then I absolutely positively MUST re-read White Oleander by Janet Fitch.
White Oleander is my absolute favorite summer book. And it absolutely must be read in the dead of summer when nothing is green. I imagine the Santa Anas blowing in just like in the novel and I crack open the book. I’ve read it either times now. Yes, I know the book by heart. That doesn’t make it any less awesome.
I thoguht maybe I was just a crazy person, going along with all these elaborate traditions. But once I started asking around, I soon realized I’m not the only person that does this.
So I want to know — in a town that reads as much Frisco, TX does, what are your crazy reading traditions?
And really, I need to hear some whoppers. Because nothing surprises me anymore.
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Lisa Kilian |
| Library Assistant |
| lkilian@friscotexas.gov |
