I love reading great books.
I love reading stories that suck me in, leaving me unaware as to how long I've been reading until I notice my hands are hurting from holding a book/kindle in one position for so long.
I love book hangovers ~ where I've stayed up waaaay to late reading but the book was so engrossing that I lost track of time and therefor totally worth it the next day.
I hate it when I look at my books/kindle and think: "I should be reading."
I have at least 50 books that I own in my To Be Read pile (TBR for short) so there's plenty of choices for a book to read.
But I can't pick any of those up right now, because I'm stuck reading a book that I don't really care about.
I envy people who can set the book down and never pick it up again. I am not one of those, once I start a book, unless there is a big life event happening (there's only 3 books I have never finished and moving thousands of miles was why I stopped reading them), I have to finish the book. Even if I don't like it.
So I trudge through it. I read it when I remember to read. I pick it up for a chapter and feel accomplished that I went a little bit further to the end. I revel in finding extra stuff at the end of the book, because that means less I have to read.
Finishing the book becomes a chore.
But when I finish the book, I feel like I really accomplished something. I got through it. It's finished.
Then I reward myself with a quick read silly book, you know, something fun that I don't have to think or feel too hard about.
And then I look to my TBR pile for the next great book (hopefully).
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