It seems I fell into the terrible self-perpetuating hole of the reading equivalent of writer's block. Is there such a thing as reader's block? According to Mr. Google there is. Anyway, I noticed today that I am doing much better. I took a week off work last week and managed to finish two books that I had been slowly working my way through. That made me feel so proud of myself. I am currently working my way through my e-book version of "Bad Science" by Ben Goldacre. It's good and I am enjoying it. And I have evidence that I am retaining what I read because I have noticed a few times now that there are chunks of pages that repeat themselves. Because of that, I have no idea how much more of the book there actually is to read. Although my iBooks app says I am on page 985 of 1474, I don't know how many of those remaining 489 pages will be repeats. I'm hoping to finish it in the next few days either way. I have so many enticing books taunting me to read them so I hope my reading habit will continue to pick up its pace but all I can do is be patient. Like writer's block, if I stop thinking about it and just give it a chance, hopefully the inspiration to read will come flooding back.
Perhaps this would be a good time to read a book about reading.
Read on,
Paula
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