Our reading bulletin board is crammed with reading life home projects and with photos of us reading around Amherst on our last field trip. Here are just a few comments from our post-field trip discussion. These comments relate to the readers we saw around us (at cafes, bookstores, and the library) as well as to our own experience reading in these public spaces:
"When we went to Amherst Coffee, there was this man. He was the only person reading just a book in the whole café. There were a million people reading with laptops!"
"I noticed that I never saw a person that was shallow in their reading. They weren’t looking around. They weren’t looking up and chatting at another person. They were looking at their book or laptop."
"I noticed that it was hard to read at the café because it was noisy… It was easy when I got to the library and the bookstore because it was nice and quiet. And I was surrounded by books which gave me the feeling that it was a reading place."
The bookstore was really easy to get into your book, but then because my book was so good I didn’t really look up, but there were so many good books there, it was fun to look up at the books. Usually, you could get distracted by those good books.
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