Ah, I love books.\u00a0 Books, books, wonderful books!\u00a0 You can never run out of them.\u00a0 Every\u00a0person\u00a0has a recommendation for an old classic or a new author.\u00a0 You can read them all at once or bit by bit.\u00a0They can be tucked into a purse or stacked beside your bed.\u00a0 They never spoil or expire.\u00a0 They can be read over and over and over without harm.\u00a0 Can there be anything more wonderful?<\/p>\n
(OK, is it totally obvious I’m a librarian’s daughter?)<\/p>\n
When it comes to reading, I have two very strange traits that coalesce.\u00a0 First, I’m a fast reader.\u00a0 Second, I’m extremely lazy.\u00a0 What does this mean?\u00a0 Simple.\u00a0 My house is strewn with half read books.\u00a0 Right now I have, with out any exaggeration, five books I am currently reading.\u00a0 Crazy?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Just lazy.\u00a0 You see, it starts out simple enough.\u00a0\u00a0 I check out a stack of books from the library and bring\u00a0them home.\u00a0 Usually, I take\u00a0one upstairs to read before bedtime.\u00a0 Totally normal, right?\u00a0 But here’s what happens.\u00a0 The next day, I find myself with some time after breakfast.\u00a0 I’m downstairs.\u00a0 My book, upstairs.\u00a0 To get it would mean walking all the way up to my room, passing my happily self-entertaining children and reminding them of my existence.\u00a0 I’m well aware of the fact that when they spied me, they would begin to demand food or snacks or a diaper change.\u00a0 This is unacceptable.\u00a0 The much simpler (and lazier) approach is to pick up another book from my to-be-read shelf and start it downstairs.\u00a0\u00a0 And so book #2 begins.\u00a0 Repeat this in different rooms of the house and before you know it, every room has a started booked tucked away somewhere.\u00a0 Thankfully I’m a very fast reader\u00a0so even though I may be reading several books at once, I can usually get them done and back to the library without incurring too many late fees.<\/p>\n
And while I’m a very speedy reader, I sometime think I’m not quite fast enough.\u00a0 I keep discovering new books!\u00a0 Drat this Internet.\u00a0 There are so many great blogs and lists and catalogues a girl can get positively lost.\u00a0 I have anywhere from 10 to 20 books waiting for me each week from the library.\u00a0 20 books!\u00a0 And they are all so good and different and interesting!\u00a0 It’s really rather decadent.\u00a0 Being smothered in books.\u00a0 I just finished adding another glut of fresh requests to my library list.\u00a0 Ah, I can hear them rustling their pages at me now.\u00a0 Hmmmm, I have another 15 minutes before the kids’ tv show ends.\u00a0 I’m sure I have a book tucked away somewhere in this room just waiting for me to flip through it’s pages.\u00a0\u00a0 If not, there’s a stack of untapped stories waiting for me downstairs.\u00a0 Yum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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