Reading Dares for Book Week Scotland

To celebrate Book Week Scotland the Scottish Book Trust are challenging anyone who is brave enough to do one of their Reading Dares (you can find yours here). Being an avid reader and fan of anything challenging I thought it would be a great idea to do a few of these dates and celebrate Book Week Scotland in style. I will update this blog with the Reading Dares as I complete them.

Dare 1:

My first dare was to ask for a book in a bookshop through the medium of interpretive dance. I decided Moby Dick would be a good choice as dancing as a whale and as someone on a boat didn't seem too intimidating. I walked into Blackwell's in Edinburgh and tried to decide if I was actually brace enough to make a fool of myself in public. At the downstairs desk there was a queue so I decided to walk upstairs and saw four people behind the desk, but a large area that would become my stage. I nervously walked towards the desk and was asked if they could help me. This was it, was I going to do this, really?

'I was looking for a specific book.' I sort of stuttered out.

'What book are you looking for?'

Ok, now or never, now or never. I began by half leaping and trying my best to imitate a man on a boat looking for a whale, before trying a terrible attempt at dancing whale style. I finished my performance and asked 'so, do you have it?'

Thankfully they were aware of the reading dare and seemed to enjoy my somewhat odd interpretation of Moby Dick, though my interpretive dancing could evidently do with some practice as they didn't know what book I was looking for. But I did it, it was exhilarating and I'm very thankful to everyone there for letting me get Reading Dare number one done!

Dare 2:

A less embarrassing dare for number two is to read an extra story or book to my daughter every day. Generally I will stick with her reading books but for the first one I couldn't resist introducing her to 'Sunset Song'. She's got a good track record of finding books already though.