Why Leia Shaw Was Threatened With Death For Poor Reading Habits

My crit partner and friend, Cari Silverwood, says I'm a very bad reader. In fact, she's even sent me death threats all the way from Australia. Why, you ask? Why go to such extremes to communicate her displeasure (other than her being from a continent where babies learn to wrestle crocodiles into submission before they can walk)?

Because I'm a skipper. I skip ahead to the end of the book I'm reading.

I can't help it. It's an obsession. Like, if you're on a diet and you know there's your favorite kind of cookies in the pantry, just a few steps away. You know you should resist. You tell yourself over and over why it would be bad to eat those cookies. From your lips to your hips – all that crap. But the more you think you shouldn't, the harder it is to resist. And I'm an instant gratification kind of person. I'm the person who says, "screw it. The cookies are mine!"

Same deal. I just HAVE to know what happens at the end of the book I'm reading. Just a quick peek. I don't read the whole ending, just a couple pages so I can go to sleep satisfied.

Even my husband gets annoyed by it. At night, I usually read my kindle in bed and he works on his laptop. If he hears the click of the turn page button moving too quickly, he will literally wrestle the kindle from my hands.

Anyway, I'm thinking an intervention is in order. And not the wrestling kind. Or the assassin kind so call off your mercenary-for-hire Cari!

How about you? Are you a closet book skipper? Or do you patiently wait for the ending like a good reader?

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