*depressed sigh*

[conuly]

I really feel bad. And this is embarassing, because I'm going to sound arrogant.

How on earth can people feel proud of only reading a book a week, or less, even? I can read a book just going to class, and another coming home. It's a sad week when I don't manage to read even one book. High school, I would take out six books from the library at once, return all six within two days. That's not counting the books they gave me, and the ones I read while in the library during lunch. Is it normal to read so little? Is it that people read slowly, or that they have other things to do? I don't get it.

I feel weird now. Like the freak here.

Well, I did tell you not to click. Don't blame me.

Comments

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

I used to read a lot like you do, but with other things to do and health problems (especially when I have migraines) and so forth, it's definitely different now.

Also I want more to read for meaning these days, so when the page just looks like scraggly black marks, I start over again. Which makes for way shorter reading times than what I used to do (which was speedread through a book at breakneck speed and it'd sort of enter into the back of my head but I couldn't access any knowledge from the book because all the decoding of the words was being done in slow-motion behind my back, so then the knowledge would pop up at some later date and I wouldn't know where it'd come from).

I'm needing a lot of time away from language too, so when I spend a lot of time on the net, I don't spend a lot of time reading elsewhere. And vice-versa. Lately my brain has felt too fogged-out to do good reading.