Are you a book lover? Do you skip meals in order to “finish the next chapter”? Do you await your favorite author’s next release like a kid counting down to Christmas? Is a trip to the library a grand adventure?
Me and She Who Must Be Obeyed? We’re rarely as content as when we’re neck-deep in a good story. Or even a mediocre one. Or chomping on a nice, thick juicy…

Wait. Where was I? Oh yeah. Reading.
We don’t read “competitively” or to win prizes. We just love books. And love to read.
A Bonus
But every once in awhile it’s nice to get a little perk. Call it a reading bonus.

We were delighted to get a phone call from the local book place the other day. Mom and I won not one but two prizes in conjunction with this year’s Adult Winter Reading Program: An Amazon gift card and a book bag filled with goodies. We ambled over to the library recently to pick up our prizes, pictured above. (Not the gorgeous, brilliant and totally pawesome canine pictured above. Cuz I’m a ‘prize’ all day every day, okay? – Love, Kimber.)

The book bag is sturdy and zippered. We can use it to haul checkouts and returns to and from the library, which we usually walk to. The bag was filled with some pretty cool stuff, including note cards, chocolate, a mini metallic notebook, and a giant coffee mug (for curling up with a good book). And who can resist Ghirardelli’s Intense Dark? Also four brand new hard book backs we haven’t yet read! The $25 gift card arrives next week.

We don’t read for prizes. We read because we love books! But getting these “perks”? It still feels like Christmas.
Now. About that nice, thick, juicy…