re: #18 marjoriemoon

Hah, funny you should mention that. About the only time I can get around to reading is at bedtime. I very frequently fall asleep while reading, and end up smacking myself in the face with the book.

Bedtime reading is perplexing. One of two things generally happens:

1) I’ll read about 3 paragraphs and fall asleep midway through the fourth. When I pick it back up again, I have to back-track several pages to straighten out what was going on in the story before I fell asleep. This is why it sometimes takes me 4-5 months to read a book.

2) I’ll get amazingly involved in the story, and unable to put the book down. I’ll glance at the clock in the knowledge that I have to get up at the butt-crack of dawn the next morning, and vow to myself that I’ll stop reading and turn out the light just as soon as I finish this chapter. BUT THEN, something interesting happens and I must therefore hold out for JUST ONE MORE chapter. Next thing I know, I have to be at work in two and a half hours, and I haven’t slept yet.

There’s no predicting which of those two outcomes will surface. I’ve experienced the 2nd scenario with horrible books I wouldn’t recommend to my worst enemy, and the 1st scenario with books that are captivating and gripping as can be.