Compared to my contemporaries I read slowly, or at least ...
Compared to my contemporaries I read slowly, or at least it seems that way to me. Matt Bell is on book #13 for 2011. I'm still on book 3. I don't know what other writers are publicly counting out their reading lists. I'd be curious. Others within my physical proximity I know read pretty fast. It's not like I'm reading particularly long books, either. I'm reading Robert Coover's Ghost Town, which finishes up within 147 pages. I know how to read faster; I had to for graduate school. But if I really want to soak up a book, I have to take my time with it. I know every reader reads his own way, but how the hell do some of you get it done so quickly? Maybe it's because I can really only read what I want to read on my own before I go to bed? I have stuff to read for my classes. Sometimes I get to assign reading that I would normally want to be reading in my free time, but not usually. That's one of the things that sucks about my place of employment. But that's beside the point. I spend the rest of my day writing and getting things prepped for class or grading. What about everyone else? Are you all setting more time aside for reading during the day?
Published on January 30, 2011 08:32
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