If you want to read the whole vacation

I was really such a nerd. Nose in the books. I only put it aside when there was a plate of food in front of me, but preferably I would eat and read at the same time, that kind of type. Now the combination of reading and young children is not easy, but when a book grabs you by the throat, you always find moments to read.

But I have another problem. My dearly beloved. Going to the movies together: not cozy. ‘Sitting next to you for two hours is such a waste of time. I want to talk.’ Even after 18 years. I consider that a compliment, so fine, we talk. The fact that I have hardly seen any Oscar winners because of it, I accept. Reading, that's another thing. Then he loses me. Especially when I, as in the case of Laura H, get sad about it. Friend L told me after a heavily ‘booked’ vacation that her husband had noticed that he found it very pleasant. ‘With the boys,’ he added softly. She had devoured seven books.

Well, if you have a partner of the same kind and want to keep satisfying your reading hunger, then I have some solutions.

1. Read together
Really the coziest tip. As far as I'm concerned, you can stop reading this article after this. Buy a book that will also appeal to him (in my case, the biography about Wim Kieft or Les Carottes Sont Cuits by Henk Spaan was a great success) in duplicate and read together. Then you are definitely in the same flow and can evaluate what you have read.

2. Read a biography
Then you can at least screen with the fact that what you read is useful.

3. Share what you read
That's always fun in the case of a biography.

4. Read aloud
My beloved makes daily TV programs and always craves knowledge and information. This summer I bought Wegens vakantie gesloten by Jarl van der Ploeg about the customs of Italians. It was both informative and particularly funny written, making reading aloud a particularly cozy phenomenon.

5. Put your book aside once in a while
Enjoy the view for a moment. Yes, even of that particularly nice person next to you.