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Originally Posted by astra
I read abou 1 hour before I go to bed and 1 hour during day time.
I read double of that over weekend. Although my books are usually thick bricks. I read mostly fantasy and on average every book is about 1000-1200 Sony Reader pages with base font size 10.
It is the main reason why I cannot afford to re-read, only on very rare occasions, like right now...Robin Hobb. It is also the reason for me to read only finished series. Naturally I would forget most of what happened in a book which 1-2 years between instalments and I cannot re-read.
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I believe I would read books faster if I had more time also -- and could stay awake. Seems like I can't stay conscious past 5 pages anymore. Weekends offer even less reading time, because my darling Social Butterfly (a.k.a. im) keeps me on the go go go.
This weekend, we are going to a performance of The Magic Flute on Friday evening, then getting up before sunrise and driving the motorhome to a state park. It's only a 2 hr drive, and I'm sure he will talk nonstop the whole way, and I try very hard not to shush him, even though I would like to be reading. He's the love of my life, and I try really really hard not to rain on his happy little parade, even if he is like a nonstop chihuaha jumping and yipping around me in circles.
Then we will be adventuring in the Great Outdoors until one or both of us get injured or snakebitten or fall over a cliff. No time for reading when one is being medivaced out of a ravine. Then back home Sunday in time to drag our sorry carcasses to bed, before starting the work week over again.
It's hard to work a book into that schedule of chaos and mayhem. But it's never dull, that's for sure!