Book Blogger Hop No. 100: Eating & Drinking While Reading

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This Week's Question

What is your go-to drink and/or 

snack while reading?

(Submitted  by Kristin @ 

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My Answer

To be honest, I don't usually drink or snack on anything while I'm reading. I tend to do that more when I'm blogging. Why the difference? Well, blogging doesn't usually require me to get lost in whatever post I'm creating. If I'm writing comments, the same thing is true. Reading, though, is another matter entirely! When I'm having a GREAT reading "session", I'm SO totally into the book I'm reading that I really have no clue as to what's going on "in the real world". Lol. If I were to break my concentration in order to reach over to my drink or snack, then I wouldn't enjoy my time with a totally fascinating book. 

However, occasionally I will drink something while immersed in a book. But only VERY occasionally. When I do so, it will depend on the season. During the winter (if you can call our South Florida weather in December "winter".....) I do enjoy curling up with a book and a cup of hot chocolate, ESPECIALLY if I'm reading a Christmas-themed romance novel. Of course, I only do this when the temps fall into the 60s or, better yet, 50s. That's about as cold as it gets down here during the day! Lol. Sometimes we're lucky enough to get into the 40s, but only at night. Since I'm a TOTAL night owl, I LOVE to do my reading late at night. (And I mean LATE, folks! I frequently go to bed around 4:00 AM. And I get up around noon. YAAAAAAAY!!!!! ) So reading and sipping hot chocolate on a "cold" winter night is just PERFECT for me!

And there's eggnog, of course. That's a GREAT alternate to hot chocolate. (But only if it's spiked, and only during the Christmas season.)This an EXTREMELY rare thing for me to do, though, as eggnog is VERY fattening! Lol.

Another alternate to hot chocolate (especially when it's not THAT cold) is hot tea. I will drink mostly herb tea, but sometimes I drink either black tea (such as English Breakfast Tea), sweetened with honey and a little bit of Half and Half, or green tea, with the same treatment. Of course, at night I prefer herb tea, because black tea will make it too hard for me to get to sleep.

In the summer (which we actually have pretty much year-round, BOO-HOO!!) I will go with something cold, naturally. I NEVER drink iced tea, though. I just don't like tea except when it's hot.

Sometimes, especially when I want to feel like a sophisticated bon vivant, for example, I will indulge in a glass of Merlot, which is my favorite wine. But this is very rare, really. And I like it cold, too. When I get into "a wine mood", I LOVE to drink wine while reading late at night. It's just so....bohemian. It also makes me feel like I'm in Paris. Lol.

Do I ever eat anything while either reading or blogging? Well, sometimes I will eat peanuts (Cocktail Peanuts, by Planters, ONLY) in the middle of blogging. But I don't actually eat them with one hand, while pecking away with the other. No, instead, I stop whatever I'm doing on the blog, and take a little break to eat the peanuts. I just don't want to get the oily residue on the keys.

I NEVER eat any food while reading. AT ALL. I just don't want any crumbs or little pieces of peanut skin, or pieces of any type of food, falling onto my open book. Plus, any food that has a bit of oil in it (like the Planters peanuts) will get on my hands, and then God forbid I turn pages with those oily hands!! No. Absolutely NOT. When I do get hungry in the middle of reading, I will close the book (with a bookmark in it, of course, as I DO NOT fold pages over; that's a bookish SIN, for goodness' sake), get up, go into the kitchen, and get myself a little snack. 

Again, I tend to avoid snacking while reading for the reasons stated above. I don't like having to break my concentration if a book REALLY has me on a roll. (Pun intended.) I can't say I'm truly enjoying a book if I interrupt myself with food (drinks, though, are less disruptive than food). So snacking and books? Not my thing, actually. My brain just doesn't like that, lol.

Writing all of the above is making me VERY nostalgic for some 50-degree temps, with a Christmas romance novel and my cup of hot chocolate..... Sigh.....
  
 

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