Here is this week’s BTT question and my response:

Do your reading habits change in the Spring?  Do you read gardening books?  Even if you don’t have a garden?  More light fiction than during the Winter?  Less?  Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack?

Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring as you do the rest of the year?

I think I read more in the spring and summer months than I do in the winter.  Winter is not a good time for me because I tend to go into hibernation mode.  I feel sluggish and old and I waste a lot of time doing ridiculous, random, nonsensical things – like spending an evening shining my laser pointer at different places on the floor so that I can witness my Pug and my Persian become more and more comically insane as they futilely try to catch the light.  That’s a good metaphor for how I spend my winter: I become more and more comically insane as I futilely try to catch the light. 

And then SPRING!  Hooray!  I have more energy for everything.  I read more, sleep more, eat more, and am generally a better person.  I’m very eclectic in my book choices (except for romances, eww), so I’ll read anything that catches my eye.  I have a couple of gardening books that are collecting dust because I don’t use them.  I’m not really much of a gardener.  It’s too much like work, and I don’t want to work in my spare time.

I prefer heavy hardback books year round because I like to show off what I’m reading, and that’s the best way to do it.  I’m probably the only person in the world who thinks that reading raises my coolness factor.  Big books are an ego thing for me, kind of like big trucks are penis extensions for men ( :

I go for long walks in the spring.  Right now, I’m up to about 2 miles a day and I’m going to start walking to work in May (4 miles a day), like I always do.  One thing I do start reading more of are books about local fauna, like birds and butterflies.  So far, I’ve seen the following butterflies on my walks:

 

 There will be more varieties as it gets warmer.  I love spring!