The question I get asked more than any other is how I find time to read. When I mentioned this on my book blog recently several people commented that they sort of wondered about that too. The truth is I don't think I read a lot and I actually think I've been a slacker on the reading front lately. Most people tend to assume it's all about finding time to read. While time is a factor, it's definitely not the only thing that contributes to the quantity that I read. So here are my top ten answers for how I read as much as I do.

I've been reading picture books aloud to my children for over a decade, and we've definitely worn out a few favorites until the layers of Scotch tape can't help anymore.  Here are some of our family's best-loved children's picture books:Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown:  Of course.  This one has to be at the top of the list.  I could do it from memory, probably backwards, but it never fails us as the best of best.

Once upon a time there was a little girl who lived in the country with her family. Her siblings were all older than her and there were no other children her age in the neighbourhood. But there were lots of books in the house and while the pictures were fun she really wanted to know what the words were. So she begged and begged until her family broke down and taught her how to read at the tender age of four. A lifetime love of books and reading was born.

Due to an unexpected workload spike in my job I've found myself with very little time on my hands for reading recently. Also related to the workload spike is the fact that I am out of book money for the month due to the fact that I had to pay someone to unknot me (ok, not just anyone but a registered massage therapist). I've had less time to write which makes me grouchy because after having shuffled my blogs to the back-burner for the last couple of months due to relocating to a new city and well, just life, I was getting back into the swing of it again. This all means that that I have a serious case of the "I wants". I want a day (or five) to sit and read. I want to be able to write when the muse strikes me. I want to run down the store or hop online and do some book shopping. But I can't. But I can read blogs.