Friday, November 17, 2006

The Other Thing

You know what else is really horrible about a great book?

The inability to accomplish anything else in one's life until the book is finished.

For a while I hadn't been reading at all, not sure why but I just hadn't been picking up anything new. And now I seem to be stuck in the, "I'll do it when I'm done reading" phase...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's an "immersion" thing, I think. Our son is the same way with video games; he acts like All Will Be Lost if he breaks away, even though "Pause" freezes everything.

Sometimes there's no resisting the siren's call.

Jean said...

yeah...that's why the laundry is piling up like Mt. Vernon b/c of a book. I know exactly..maybe too exactly...by what you mean..

Carbon said...

Me very bad. I haven't sinked my teeth into a book in a long while. I love that feeling of not being to put the book down. It's like happy butterflies in your stomach. We should all be so lucky to feel that way more often!