[lindyhop]

I've had my nose in a book my whole life but not so much lately. I feel guilty about that but other worthwhile things have been filling my time. When I do read it's in little bursts and sometimes I just pick up a magazine instead of a book. Since I live alone one of the steps in meal preparation is finding the right reading material while I eat.

I read fast and that's not necessarily a good thing. Sometimes I feel like I'm just trying to get through as many books as possible and I don't remember a thing, even when I've enjoyed a book, after I'm done. I skip over words I don't know, assuming I'll get it from the context, and I skim through description and long paragraphs.

Currently I'm reading an annotated version of "Pride and Prejudice" and I'm finding that reading all the notes is adding to the experience but it has also slowed me down and I'm really enjoying that. For a change I'm really absorbing more than just the bare outlines of the story.

I'll read more than one book at a time but that's usually the reason I don't finish some books. Sometimes I never go back to a book once I put it down. I've stopped reading books with only one or two chapters to go. A few summers ago I was reading "One Hundred Years of Solitude" while I was on vacation and I got halfway through it before I came home and never opened it again.

I know a lot of people who don't read. I don't understand those people.