How to tell if you are a real bookworm.
The power for the building has just gone, plunging you into darkness. The brand new book that arrived this morning is sat at your elbow.
Do you:
Think "Ah bollocks" and go to bed?
or
Gather up a dozen tealights and a scented candle, arrange them in a circle and read by flickering candlelight until your eyes start to hurt?
It was a pretty good book, mind you.
(Big D, Thu 23 Jul 2009, 20:28, 3 replies)

I have a clip on
battery powered light for such occasions.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 24 Jul 2009, 8:57, closed)

I remember doing this
for one of the Harry Potter books when I was wee, the fifth one I think. I actually read a good few chapters by torchlight, though my eyes ached like buggery afterwards.
(Aruu does not put all her trust in root vegetables., Fri 24 Jul 2009, 23:40, closed)

And
if you are lucky, you will enjoy your read, decide to go to bed and put the candles out, not wake up in a panic as your living room, or worse, your bedroom, is engulfed by flames from the candle you knock over when you doze off.

Hmmmm, candles, great for wax-play (though not the beeswax ones obviously) and burning down houses, not so great for reading with, IMHO!
(Rsoles, Sat 25 Jul 2009, 13:49, closed)