Last week, I had a little extra pocket cash and bought A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Housseini and The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I read both in about a 3 day time span, less if you subtract the time that I was gone over the weekend.
I have always been that way with new books. Once I open it, they're hard to put down until they're finished. Some of you may also remember when I read Harry Potter 7 in 5 hours. I read the whole Twilight Series in about 5 or 6 days. I think that I have an incessant need to know what is going to happen to these characters. Often, after I had finished the book, I'll read it again more slowly and pick up on the details I may have missed. Really, you think I'd learn and just read them at a slower pace!
My friend Rachel dubbed this phenomenon because she suffers from it too: Binge Reading. Any other Binge Readers or former Binge Readers? Any suggestions for recovery?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
Binge Reading
Posted by hannah at 2:07 PM
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On the contrary, sometimes I'll start a book, then get busy and forget about it, only remembering to pick it up months later, read another chapter, and forget for another few months.
If I finish it at all. I have to confess there are several half-read books on my shelf that I have no immediate intentions of finishing.
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