Bookish Munchies, Reading Times and Mix Tapes!

I love participating in weekly bookish memes, answering questions and making lists, but sometimes the answers are not enough to make a decent post... On their own!

So, on those weeks, I'll be combining rather than skipping!

This week we're asked for our Favorite Things to Eat/Drink While Reading.

To be honest? I don't eat much while reading.

Occasionally, I may munch on a biscuit ('cookies') or crisps ('chips') but it's not a regular thing... I also have a sweet spot for skittles and wine gums but I try not to buy them often because I. Cannot. Resist!

I do however always have drinks on the go while reading. 

Tea, water or squash. 

Mix Tape

Release Date: 20th January 2020

Blurb:

You never forget the one that got away. But what if ‘what could have been’ is still to come?

Daniel was the first boy to make Alison a mix tape.

But that was years ago and Ali hasn’t thought about him in a very long time. Even if she had, she might not have called him ‘the one that got away’; she’d been the one to run away, after all.

Then Dan’s name pops up on her phone, with a link to a song from their shared past.

For two blissful minutes, Alison is no longer an adult in Adelaide with temperamental daughters; she is sixteen in Sheffield, dancing in her too-tight jeans. She cannot help but respond in kind.

And so begins a new mix tape.

Ali and Dan exchange songs – some new, some old – across oceans and time zones, across a lifetime of different experiences, until one of them breaks the rules and sends a message that will change everything…

Because what if ‘what could have been' is still to come?

Question: How long does it usually take you to finish a book?

How long is a piece of string? 

There is no simple answer to this question. 

I can inhale a 600+ page beast in a day if I'm utterly engrossed. 

I can labour over a 250-page book for a week if I'm liking it but not loving it. 

I can take weeks if I'm not feeling it but, for whatever reason, want to finish it.

For a 'typical' book of 300-400 pages, that I'm really enjoying but not enough to abandon everything else I need to do to in order to finish it, it usually takes two days.

Audiobooks are different though as I can only listen to them under certain situations or I lose the plot, quite literally!

The audiobooks I've been listening to have been between 12 and 17 hours long and take about three or four weeks of commuting to finish. 

I could probably finish them faster but sometimes I need to think or want music instead.