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On 08/18/2014 08:35 AM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 8/17/2014 9:10 AM, wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Aug 2014 21:54:34 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I am just the opposite. If there were people around to talk to, I'd
>>> talk to
>>> them and not read the book. Reading is only something I do to fill
>>> time.
>>> Or if I have a need to read the specific material. I would never read a
>>> book at a restaurant though. I find that to be rude. I would do it
>>> at a
>>> coffee shop though. Lots of people do that.
>>
>> Why ? What's wrong with doing exactly what you want (so long as it
>> doesn't infringe on the other diners pleasure) - you say you are a
>> writer and yet now you say reading is something you only do to fill
>> time?
>>
> (snippage)
>
> Give it up. She doesn't dine alone; she can't imagine dining alone.
> (Too bad at some point in her life she just might have to.) I see no
> reason why reading a book in a restaurant when dining alone could be
> considered rude. Of course I'm not talking about formal dining settings
> with white linens, sterling silver and crystal water goblets.
>
> Jill

And then there's JK Rowling, who didn't read in a restaurant, but WROTE
the early Harry Potter novels in an Edinburgh tea house. . . On paper
napkins.