Posted: 12/5/2012 12:59:55 AM EDT
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I'm in between degrees. After 20 years in college and 3 degrees, I'm taking a break as I focus on other things. Tonight, however, I decided I needed to get back to just reading books to keep that part of the mind working, active, honed like it gets when in college.
I have three books beside me here at work. One of them is about the Entebbe raid, one is a Sondra Locke autobiography (after reading the 1st chapter, I have to wonder if having Clint speak at the Rep Convention was rather a stupid move), and another autobiography by Bo Derek. The Derek book I started quite a while back, got 75% through, but it got put aside one day, fell off the bed, buried, and forgotten for quite a long while. How many books do we do that to in life? I've did a good dent in "The Uplift War" years ago, but never finished it. I read "The Mirror of Her Dreams", experienced the same shock that astronaut Shannon Lucid did at the end of the book (spoiler) but only got a chapter or two into the sequel and then it was put aside. No doubt, there are others, sitting there, perhaps bookmarked, waiting for me to return. It's not that they are necessarily boring; just we get distracted one day.......and one day becomes the next day, the next week, the next year. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ("Do you read?"--Shannon sending a test message that is only visible on the inner surface of Nicholas's glasses "No, not much, I don't have that much time."--Nicholas, (w,stte), Mission Impossible "Deadly Harvest") |
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I tend to read books cover to cover rapidly. If it's worth reading about, I want to read it all right now. I also do not juggle books. Finish one and then start another. I'm the same way. I cant stand to start anything and not finish it. The only books Ive just refused to finish was the Wheel of time series by Robert Jordan. But Ive read The Count of Monte Cristo three times. If a book sucks, I just try to soldier on through it. |