January 5, 2007
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Featured Grownups Topic
Doggie walked — Check
Beach enjoyed — check
Body worked out — check
Books read — check, and double check.
I’m embarrassed (not really but it sounds good) to say I’ve spent most of the last 3 days with my nose in a book. I only say most because yesterday morning about 9:30 I finished Twilight and had to wait till this morning before I could start New Moon (and finished it about seven, it was REALLY good).
So – to the Twilight series….
or as I often say “Two Thumbs way high”. I can’t wait for the next book. Seems like I’m always waiting on books. I’ve waited on books for the Dragonlance series, the Belgariad, The Mallorean, the Elder Gods, The Incarnations of Immortality, the Harry Potter Books, Eragon and now Twilight. Phfff.So, since I’m talking about my reading addiction, I’ll go ahead and deal with the Featured_Grownups topic:
2007 ~ January 1 of 2
Tell us something about yourself that we don’t know
Something most of the Xanga Community does not know
- are you an amazing musician?
- Are you a clutz
- Do you take amazing pictures
SoTell us, show us, share with us
It doesn’t have to be a current event and can be more than one thing… you set the rules — funny, serious, heart felt — it’s up to you
So, my something after thinking for several days will be about reading. I’m an avid – almost rabid reader. I love Fantasy, but will compulsively read most anything. If I’m in your house I will read all the things on your counter, posted on your fridge etc. In offices I read every sign, every piece of paper laying around and anything else that has print on it. Even in foreign countries I compulsively try to decipher the signs written in foreign languages because there is print posted there for me to read.
Not only do I read compulsively and avidly, I read quickly. Actually, most people would say I read lightening fast. I used to read romance books for “light reading” often in just a couple of hours I’d read a whole book. They were like comics to me. They were easy to read and didn’t take any concentration as they are so predicable and fun. For books I really enjoy, I completely tune out of the real world. Often you have to come and physically nudge me to get my attention. I see it in my head –the whole thing, like a movie that just keeps running. This brings me to the thing that most bothers my hubby about my reading…
when reading to myself, I skip all the little words. All of the ofs, thes, bys, ands, etc. My eyes also are ahead of my brain. This is usually obvious when I read out loud, as most mistakes are when I start reading the line my eyes are on before I actually get there in the story — does that make any sense? I also can remember where in the book, on what side of the page and approximately where on the page my favorite events are.
So, basically, I’m a reading freak. I know there are others out there like me, my father for one, my eldest daughter for another and several other folks I’ve met. Not a bad thing. Just a thing.
There you go, something you didn’t know about me.
Please stop by Featured_Grownups and read the rest of the great entries.
Question for the day:
Avid reader, recreational reader, or reading only when forced?
Comments (33)
Sorry, I’ve been MIA lately with the move and all but I’m glad to see that all is well. Me – I actually love to read but I mostly read in spurts besides magazines, lol. I’m addicted to them. I read several a week. I would like to read more but I feel that I never have the time since starting back to school. Wait…school….does that reading count? lol.
recreational reader, and reader by force (for school and what not)
thanks for stopping by!
Avid reader here. I have to have a book at all times. Just the way I grew up. I wasn’t allowed much tv, so I turned to books. My oldest is a big reader, so I’ve passed down my habit!
I’m an avid reader on a daily basis(such signs and the sorts). I’m a rec. reader any other time. Awesome post.
Ah! It’s so amazingly true. I write myself notes constantly and litter my desk at the church with them. I read and reread and often find myself nosing through xanga when I feel as though there is nothing fresh and only a few moments to widdle away… reading (c:
I’m so glad to know that it’s nice on the other end of these years! Please visit again, fellow reader.
i go through phases of reading tons and not reading at all. right now i am in a not reading at all phase…..not because i don’t want to, just don’t have the time to right now.
Great post! I, too, am an avid reader, a bookworm my entire life! Bravo!! Mind if I subscribe to your site?
By the way, writergoddess and nessi1 are one and the same. I just like having my Featured Grownups and my Internet Island blogs on one site which is writergoddess. Nessi1 is my”mother site”
I would have to say I’m a recreational reader, but I always have to have a book going on. When I am almost finished with one, I have to get a another, or I stockpile. But I don’t read anything but books, I don’t read signs or pamphlets etc…..
I always have a book going. I used to have two or three going at the same time. I wouldn’t say I’m a reading freak though. That really was a wonderful discription of your obsession with reading. :big-smile:
I wish I was. I like to read but can’t make the committment to a book so I read magazines. If I start with a really good book, everything else gets neglected or I fall asleep on it in bed. My mother is like you.
Avid but slow reader. I can’t get passed pronouncing the words in my head. I never skip or skim.
Thanks for your comments.
Wow. I wish I could read that fast. I love reading for pleasure (mostly fiction) but cannot stand to be without something to read in boring situation (waiting for my car to be fixed, on a road trip, or in the bathroom). I really don’t understand people who say that they don’t like reading. I just cannot comprehend NOT enjoying reading, as it’s one of my favorite things to do. Ever.
I understand that method of reading completely. Somewhere way back, I learned to read like that and just inhaled books. As I have gotten older, I have wanted to savor books more and so I forced myself to slow down…sometimes by reading aloud. But with some books, I cannot even force myself to go slow. There is not much better than having one’s nose in a good book for hours on end, and having the next, and the next ready at hand when the first one ends. What a miracle gift to be trasported through time and space, informed, enlightened, or amused and entertained. Ain’t it grand?!
RYC: yeah, poor Kelly, that was so out of line for rosie to say. I felt bad for her ( Kelly). I agree they ( don and rose) are both big bullies. :not-talking:
I think you described me perfectly with your description of your reading habits! :big-smile:
Great topic. I am a recreational reader unless I find a series that knocks my socks off. Then I become Avid and can’t stop the madness of reading. It helps me relax though and feel like I am somewhere else. So what is the Twilight series? Have a great Friday
I’ve always called myself a rabid reader, but you have me beat. I usually tell my children goodbye when I pick up a book that I’ve been waiting on (like Harry Potter) and return to them the next day when it’s gone. The rest of the time, I have a book on hand and will read only a few pages at a time if that’s all I have time to squeeze in.
RYC: Thanks for applying the pressure to be of interest. I’ll try not to disappoint.
I can’t read.
:so-cool:Oh, yeah…I read “like a woman posessed” (my husband, who hasn’t read fiction since the nuns beat him, tells me) and fast and furious. Almost any fiction, and even a little non-fiction like history or biography. Any time, any where…including in the car, while driving. Yeah. Scary. RYC: nope, even I draw the line at wine in a box.
I am a avid reader :big-smile: I love to read and all my kids and grandkids are all avid readers too. I readed to them when they were babys and always gave them books to read!
interesting- sometimes I skip and then I have to go back thinking I missed something… I’m a slow reader unless the book has completely sucked me in- you have the same tase in books as my dh- I’ll have to look into getting the Twilight series for him- he only reads fantasy if he can help it. :hammer:
I did those first 2 things this morning too…maybe we were looking at the same ocean at the same time. Wouldnt that have been cool. I will look south next time to see if I can see you!
Reading is really good for your brain! I got a DS Lite for Christmas and am doing the BrainAge games. They say to read everything around you and you will improve your brain power.
right on! i love to read too. my sister and i saw a sticker over the holidays in a bookstore that said ‘Reading is Sexy.’ we were like, so true…
You live in Maui?? Oh wow! Actually were were on Oahu, but we want to go back and island hop. I loved it.
Is there homeless in Maui too? I couldn’t believe it on the west shoreline of oahu. Unbelievable.
So beautiful though. We stayed on the north shore. LOVED IT!
In elementary school, I actually took a speed reading course…and generally, if I remember correctly, that is what they teach you to do: read so quickly that you skip over the small words.
See, you could teach the course. 
i also love to read! I go through books so fast and get my hubby mad he says you couldnt have finished that fast lol they think i skip pages lol. My mom loves to read so i think i get it from her.My daughter loves to read too. My hubby takes forever to read so he really doesnt like to read. Have a great day!
I try to read that fast, but it’s too hard. I always find myself going back and rereading sentences, trying to wring every drop of meaning out of them. Thus I don’t think I could read the average book in a day. More power to you.
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Dear Annette,
I’m visiting from Featured Grownups. Yours is a site I’ve visited before, so hello there. Thank you for the comment on my blog. (I know it was for Featured Grownups, but thanks anyway. And RYC: You can see most of my work online right now on my YouTube site.)
I learned to speed read back in college. (I was an Eng. Lit major and had to read multiple novels a week) But I found that speed reading for pleasure would cause me to forget what I’d read after a while. I love to read, but haven’t done much (non internet) reading in about three years.
Keep reading everything you can. Keeping your nose in a book for three days is not a bad thing, as far as I’m concerned. (Unless you read while driving LOL)
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
RYC: I hate it when they do that. The spider crawled up my leg in the woods. Damn Daddy Longlegers!
I’m with you, I LOVE to read! I always make sure to have a book in my briefcase so that I have something to read while waiting for a patient or doctor….when a book has been especially good, I feel a little bit of depression on finishing it!….I also read very fast, I can read 2 to 3 books for each one that Mike reads. One of the things I love best about going to Maui (other than obviously MAUI!…LOL) is the 5.5 hours of reading I will get in on each flight, that is normally enough time for 2 books….one of the things I plan way ahead of the game is which book to read on the flight, because getting 5.5 hours of uninterupped reading is such a luxury that I just don’t want to waste it!…LOL
Thank you for sharing. I’m an avid reader and library assistant. Hehe. I love my job. Thank s for stopping by.
~ april
Def. an Avid Reader here. Though I can’t read any romance novel in 2 hours … more like 4. But still … I love to read and do it quite often. Reading two series right this moment one by LA Banks and another by Nora Roberts. The issues can’t come out fast enough. Alas, I will have to just pick up another series.