Reading on your Cruise?

[AlohaPride]

Does anyone read the Outlander series?? Will you be reading the newest book immediately OR saving it for your next cruise?? With only 75 days until we sail, I don't know if I can wait that long (or if I should wait that long). :p

Edited June 9, 2014 by AlohaPride

[Scrapnana]

Does anyone read the Outlander series?? Will you be reading the newest book immediately OR saving it for your next cruise?? With only 75 days until we sail, I don't know if I can wait that long (or if I should wait that long). :p

 

Are you going to watch the TV series?

 

I read the first couple of books in the series many years ago.

[AlohaPride]

Of course! LOL! That's one thing I'm a bit bummed about. No Starz on HAL cable ;)

 

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[HokiePoq]

Don't deny yourself that long! I have a Kindle full of books to read on cruises and also bring several paperbacks for the long air flights as mine doesn't seem to hold a charge all that long. Found out it's great for a nightlight when I wake up in the middle of the night unable to sleep and it doesn't disturb DH the say a regular light would. I love the libraries on HAL but on the one voyage there was a Noro outbreak, they closed the library, so like to have my own stash of reading material.

[AlohaPride]

LOL! I have a nook with a light and LOVE it!! I'm going to load it with tons of books. I think I should read Written In My Own Heart's Blood before the cruise. If I don't, I'll miss a lot of Alaska stuck inside the book.

 

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[Susie51]

I've never used my Kindle Fire for reading books. I didn't think about doing this on a cruise. I usually check out books from the library. Does it have a good light to read by? The light for playing games is excellent.

[Mytime2014]

I've never used my Kindle Fire for reading books. I didn't think about doing this on a cruise. I usually check out books from the library. Does it have a good light to read by? The light for playing games is excellent.

 

 

Kindle fire is great for reading - although there can be a bit of glare in sunlight, I'll just look for a shady place. I'm on my second one and go to a couple of free/discounted book sites. I have hundreds of books on there depending on my mood, I'm sure to have something.

[OVgirl]

LOL! I have a nook with a light and LOVE it!! I'm going to load it with tons of books. I think I should read Written In My Own Heart's Blood before the cruise. If I don't, I'll miss a lot of Alaska stuck inside the book.

 

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Good plan, because once you start reading nothing else matters. It would be very sad to miss your cruise. :(

[pv girl]

I am an avid reader but find that I hardly touch the books I bring along on cruises. I read at the airport while waiting, and on the plane during boarding. Then I usually watch a movie or fall asleep. Our cruises tend to be very port intensive, so the days are too busy to read - back to the ship, dinner, a little piano bar action and/or show, and off to bed. Sea days, maybe a little reading, but like to be out and about, or play board games or cards.

 

Now if I were on a world cruise with lots of sea days, then I would read a lot.

Alaska cruises - port days are busy, Glacier Bay and Inside Passage days, there is a lot to see outside.

[mtnmama71]

Does anyone read the Outlander series?? Will you be reading the newest book immediately OR saving it for your next cruise?? With only 75 days until we sail, I don't know if I can wait that long (or if I should wait that long). :p

 

 

I'm having the same dilemma! I LOVE Outlander, am re-reading the first one now in anticipation of the series, but we've only a month to our cruise and I'd like to wait for then, but not so sure I can! :eek:

[1of4]

LOL - cruising is the ONLY time I do find time to read. I had no idea Outlander was coming to TV...I guess not "north of the border"...ho hum.

[AlohaPride]

LOL - cruising is the ONLY time I do find time to read. I had no idea Outlander was coming to TV...I guess not "north of the border"...ho hum.

 

I thought I saw that it was going to be shown in Canada in late August?? I'm really not sure :(

[Wendy-Europe]

Oh - no - release date in Germany is July 21... to late for my cruise.

 

And I think, it is too complicated to start in english with this book - I have all others in german (and I would like to have it in real paper in by bookshelf).

 

But I have a kindle full of books and I want to read a few (in the time "before" kindle" I think I was the only person leaving a cruise with lighter suitcases - I finished one or two books every day and left them at the ships library - a total of 20 books during a 13 day cruise (and it was not a TA - we did a lot of excursions too). We arrived with car at the cruise port, so I had no limitation :D

 

For me the kindle was the best new thing for years!

 

Wendy

[msjekyl]

I've already started the latest book and I'm sure I'll finish before leaving for my cruise in 18 days. I'll need to find something else to read on the plane I guess. :p

Edited June 11, 2014 by msjekyl

[PatriciaF]

I've already started the latest book and I'm sure I'll finish before leaving for my cruise in 18 days. I'll need to find something else to read on the plane I guess. :p

 

I recommend The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

[AlohaPride]

Oh - no - release date in Germany is July 21... to late for my cruise.

 

And I think, it is too complicated to start in english with this book - I have all others in german (and I would like to have it in real paper in by bookshelf).

 

But I have a kindle full of books and I want to read a few (in the time "before" kindle" I think I was the only person leaving a cruise with lighter suitcases - I finished one or two books every day and left them at the ships library - a total of 20 books during a 13 day cruise (and it was not a TA - we did a lot of excursions too). We arrived with car at the cruise port, so I had no limitation :D

 

For me the kindle was the best new thing for years!

 

Wendy

 

Hi, my name is Mary, and I'm a book hoarder. There is no WAY I'd leave books behind. I just couldn't do it! LOL I admire you and your ability to let them go. :D

[AlohaPride]

I've already started the latest book and I'm sure I'll finish before leaving for my cruise in 18 days. I'll need to find something else to read on the plane I guess. :p

 

Yeah, I'm almost done, too. :/ 5 years of waiting for 3 days of reading ROFL

[mtnmama71]

Yeah, I'm almost done, too. :/ 5 years of waiting for 3 days of reading ROFL

 

 

I won't allow myself to read it that fast! It takes too long for another so I make myself take it slow and let the enjoyment last longer. ;)

[OVgirl]

LOL - cruising is the ONLY time I do find time to read. I had no idea Outlander was coming to TV...I guess not "north of the border"...ho hum.

 

I've seen some ads on Showcase, so hoping that they will show it here.

[Wendy-Europe]

Hi, my name is Mary, and I'm a book hoarder. There is no WAY I'd leave books behind. I just couldn't do it! LOL I admire you and your ability to let them go. :D

 

Oh no - I was that kind of person too - but I always support my local library - so a few times in the year a box of books went to them. And when I moved from one apartment to another I sweared I will never move so many books again (around 100 boxes), so I gave away a lot of them and keep just the "few" books i will not miss (maybe the amount of 50 boxes).

 

And I try to let one book go, if a new one comes in....

 

It works.... (thanks Kindle)

 

Very rare that I read a book twice - so a lot of them are "fast food" books - no fear to let them go.

 

Wendy

[trvlcrzy]

I got hooked on a series while on a HAL ship... and wouldn't you know... they didn't have the next book in their library (gasp)?

 

I refuse to read out of order. It's just wrong. I even checked the library on my next cruise... no luck. I had to buy one to keep moving in the series. (Now graduate school has interfered with my pleasure reading... but soon, very soon... I'll be back!)

[kakalina]

Mary , I just got to the beginning of part 4 and am taking a break. LOL.:)

 

I love my Kindle paperwhite. I use it for downloading library books and read away. I read a lot on cruises. Of course we tend to take longer cruises with lots of sea days.:p

 

When we downsized into a condo I had to do away with most of my personal library of books. I just have a few collections I won't give up. The Outlander series, the In Death series by JD Robb, and my entire collected works of Robert A Heinlein. :D

 

I am willing to read just about anything and therefore never run out of things to read. I learned very early and if I can't find anything else I will read the labels on jars and such while at the table. :eek:

[AlohaPride]

I got hooked on a series while on a HAL ship... and wouldn't you know... they didn't have the next book in their library (gasp)?

 

I refuse to read out of order. It's just wrong. I even checked the library on my next cruise... no luck. I had to buy one to keep moving in the series. (Now graduate school has interfered with my pleasure reading... but soon, very soon... I'll be back!)

Which series is this??

 

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