Bookworm

[moonwise]

When I was a kid, I read voraciously, and was always having one book or another taken away in class.

As I got older, I didn't read quite as much, and with the advent of the Internet, somehow the number of books I read a year fell off dramatically. It was bothersome - like I'd lost a talent.

On Friday after work, I went to Borders and picked up a copy of "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time," intending to make it last for a weekend.

It didn't last an hour and a half.

It was good to know that was still possible - to be so engrossed in a book that you can't stop reading even for dinner or a trip to the potty.

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[tntoxfox.livejournal.com]

You know, I've sort of followed that same pattern. I read a lot as a kid too but as I got older it trailed off and being in grad school seemed to squelch any desire for me to read something creative, because I was simply too tired! I'd been reading papers all day and the last thing I wanted to do was go home and read some more. I feel kinda bad about it.

Oh well...I've recently picked up a copy of Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie and I'm enjoying that muchly.