I find myself painfully reminded why I don’t read for pleasure all that often. Last night on a whim I picked up the latest Harry Potter book at Wal-Mart while grocery shopping. Now I know me, and I know this was a VERY bad thing to have done. Why did I do it? I find myself asking, well the answer is no better than the question itself… Anyway the point is rather than excersicing self control I opend the cover and began to read moments after getting home. I’m sure there are those that will argue for eitehr side as to how good the book is but that is besides the point. I have a problem, when I read any book for pleasure… I CAN’T PUT IT DOWN with out great pain… I am one of those loons that will sit and read a book cover to cover w/o stopping to notice time at all. I fored myself to leave this book in the car (yes I was reading it while driving, yes I know thats dangerous, yes I know…) today while at work or I would have accomplished nothing at all. Now I find myself sitting here nearly shaking like some drug addict looking for his next fix.. . I feel like half my mind is trapped in the darn thing and can’t get out until I finish that last page… I want to continue reading the book… I am already probably 1/4 of the way through it… Sigh.. only 15 mins to go before I can leave… I’m sure this disorder has somethign to do with why I work in a library, or perhaps the disorder came about becasue I work in a library. I’m pretty sure its the other way around though, as I’ve bene like this as long as I can remember. I remeber saturday mornign cartoons with the little commercial break things you know the public service announcements with “Captain O.G. Readmore” (yes I know the song if you are wondering) and I remember watching those PSA’s and identifying with the goofy cat…
Yes I know… Strange…
I am supposed to drive up to Libertyville to visit with friends and stay the night at their place to be closer to Faire this weekend but I’m not sure if I am going to or not. I find myself wanting to do nothign else but read the book… Also I haven’t yet packed anyhting for the weekend and don’t even know where to begin… That certainly slows down my packing and motivation…
Arrrgh… Oh well nearly time to go home…
John's Musings 
I pre-ordered the book. Picked it up last Monday (becaue faire is a bit more important)
and by Wednesday evening I was done. That’s every waking moment that I’m not driving/working
doing something else with my eyes, spent reading. ::sigh:: I love books you can just dive
into. 🙂