This week I flew from Hong Kong to Phoenix, Arizona for my sister's wedding. Most of my bookspotting this week happened in the airport and in the air. The man sitting next to me on the plane from Hong Kong to Los Angeles was reading Towers of Midnight, the most recent installment in the Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. I had a long layover in LA, where I spotted a woman carrying a novel by Sandra Brown, a man carrying a novel by Nick Hornby, and someone else carrying a book called Monsoon by Wilbur Smith. I saw a woman reading Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler and I saw a Kindle in a nice red cover. I spent a good hour in the bookstore, and it was nice to see what is popular right now in the good ol' USA.
Next week's bookspotting post will fill you in on what people are reading in sunny Arizona. What are people reading in your town this week?
I, too, just went to an (Arizona) airport and spotted a man carrying a hardback copy of "Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption" by Laura Hillenbrand.
ReplyDeleteI’ve been so busy with my nose in my own book the last two days on the bus that I haven’t noticed with others are reading. I’m reading Unwind by Neal Shusterman. It’s a YA which I don’t normally read but it’s really interesting. It’s dystopian about the future after a war between the pro-choice and pro-life camps. It reads really quickly.
ReplyDeleteEver since you introduced bookspotting I've been dying to get out somewhere (out of my small town, at least) and do some bookspotting myself. So, in a couple of weeks I will be traveling to Europe and hope to finally do some airport and cafe spying to see just what other people are reading out there in the world. I'll try to discretely take notes and then post my observations when I get back. Hehe should be fun!
ReplyDeleteTrish, that sounds like an excellent idea! Where are you going? I hope you have a great trip full of many books and adventures!
ReplyDeleteI saw a boy around 16 yrs with a very thick paperback. The title looked to be "moving night" but a search on amazon didn't help clarify.Spent the weekend at the beach with our 21month old grandson. He's reading "in the night garden" from the BBC kids TV series. There were lots of newspapers around at the weekend, people were looking at the special colour supplements with the Royal Wedding pictures. I've just finished "weight of silence" in paperback and now reading "Tess" on my kindle. Husband reading a Peter James murder. Nothing else spotted.
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