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Originally Posted by Joy736
That's 100 pages a day. That's something I can understand for someone who just has a lot of free time or is able to read at work, etc.
It's just those peolpe who claim to read at least one book a day.
They'll have to only be reading, eating and sleeping, every day  |
I read very quickly and can finish, at most, 3 Harlequin Presents (about a little under 200 pgs) in a non-work day (though I may have to go bed very late to finish the 3rd
). During a work-week, I can finish about 5 books, averaging one a day, though I may not actually
finish one every day.
Last year, while on vacation, I read a 600-pg book in a day (in about 12 hours). I was hooked from the start - it was one of those books you get super-engrossed in, and you start shouting at the characters and making threats when things don't go your way. At one point, I almost threw my Kindle across the room, thinking it was a paperback
I really calmed down after that
I fit reading into every moment I can. I read on the bus, on bank lines, while waiting for the doctor, on coffee breaks, on lunch breaks, on supermarket lines, between loads of laundry. Seriously, my Kindle sits on the kitchen counter while I'm grating cheese for a macaroni pie
My quick reading was honed from very young, when my classmates and I loaned books to each other. I'd finish a Sweet Dreams book (does anybody remember those
) during the school day so my friend (who invariably borrowed it from someone who didn't attend our school) could return it to the owner at the end of the school day. During English literature (when I was supposed to be developing a love for literary fiction (
), I was reading Stephen King's The Stand propped in front whatever book we were supposed to be reading in class. So yeah, I've got this quick reading thing down to a science