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When I read, I don't read a chapter at a time. I don't read for fifteen minutes every night before I sleep. Hell, I don't even read in lines and during lunch and only during those spare scraps of time when I don't have anything else to do.

When I read, I Read. I read books from page one straight on through to page ninety or two hundred or a thousand. If I'm lucky, I force myself to eat during that time --taking the book with me, of course. Every time I have to close the book, I do so with reluctance, and while I'm in the middle of a book, more desperate than any other want is the niggling little desire to keep reading --to find out what comes next, to read and see and hear the words and find out just what the author has planned.

This is why I don't read very often. This is also why I perpetually have multiple books that I am "in the middle of"--I will start Reading them, get torn away, and so distracted that I never manage to grab them again.

I like reading. I like it a lot, and I realize this every time I pick up paper books again. I've managed to read five novels in three days (admittedly only one new) and I'm happy about this --it helps make me feel stable.

But I meant to be ready to start accomplishing things an hour ago. I wanted to be showered, with clean hair, and working on my scriptwriting or my calculus or my teaching homework. What ate my time? Are you shocked to learn it was a book?

I read a lot less often than most of the rest of you, and that's a depressing thing to think about. I'd really really like to change that. But honestly? I'm so erratic and distractible when it comes to homework already. Do you really think having "just one more chapter" whining in the back of my head will make it any better?

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Thoughts?

~Sor
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