@Lily – Many libraries have electronic versions of books that you can “check out” on your Kindle or other device for free. Our library has a system that can be accessed via the web so I can pull up my bookshelf on any of my devices. I prefer to read on my Kindle at home but if I’m out and about and find myself waiting, I can pull up whatever book I am reading on my phone.

Hayley, this is a fantastic idea! I really like it… I’m not so sure I can make the weekend idea work, but I think we can all get on board with the DEAR idea in our house. Thank you so much for sharing.

@Karen and Cate- I’m sorry to report that all the HOT LOCAL MEN exist primarily in Jenny Colgan’s head. Shame.

I live in a village in England, too, and I’m sad to report that there are definitely NO HOT LOCAL MEN here. I hope they’re not all in Cornwall. .. that’s a really long drive.

I’m happy you got into the Kindle app because after reading ‘All the Money in the World’, one significant change I made was buying more kindle books! I’d had the mindset that books were outside my budget, and my reading material came from libraries or birthday requests or borrowing. Which was a good mindset when I was a broke college student, but at the time I was a reasonably well-paid consultant. Buying books to have on my phone helped create little bits of relaxing ‘me time’ when a meeting started late or a flight was delayed, keeping me sane in the midst of crazy long hours (with the timetracking to prove it!) Lately I’ve been back to paperbacks though – partly because I’m a broke student again but partly because it’s helping me break out of the social media/news media attention vortex

Thanks, Haley, I love this idea!

Thanks for all of the great tips, Laura! I can see also that the first step is just to set the intention. I’ve gotten good about not wasting time reading social media, but I could definitely stand to read less news and more fiction.