Addiction
Okay, so I admit it. I have a problem. It is the only thing that I am truly addicted to and when the feeling overcomes me, I thank God that it is related to this and not something totally mind rotting.
I love to read.
When a story grips me—and I can usually tell by the first page—then I can't put it down. I must finish the read. I must get to the end. The world be damn until I find out how this it going to end. (In fact, I didn't even read the ending of this one, which is a first.) I shirk all my responsibilities. Stay up way later than reasonable. And, worse, I put aside my writing, which I had planned to do this weekend. I had a whole weekend free and what did I do??? Spend most of it reading Julia Quinn's On the Way to the Wedding.
Damn her for writing so well!! Argh!
For a Regency, it was fast paced, witty, and moved at a break neck speed that whipped my emotions around and around. I love stories where the hero and heroine don't realize that they love each other until mid-way through the book. Of course, the reader uncovers their attraction to one another first through a series of small awakenings in a character. They notice the pleasant way the other one laughs. The cute freckles on their nose. The color of their eyes. Their speech pattern and familiar way of walking. Slowly their friendship builds and slowly their love grows until they both can't deny their feelings any longer. Of course, it doesn't end there, somehow the hero has to stop the heroine from making a terrible mistake and marrying the wrong man.
Ah, love. I so love it!
Now if I can only get my work done today ...
I love to read.
When a story grips me—and I can usually tell by the first page—then I can't put it down. I must finish the read. I must get to the end. The world be damn until I find out how this it going to end. (In fact, I didn't even read the ending of this one, which is a first.) I shirk all my responsibilities. Stay up way later than reasonable. And, worse, I put aside my writing, which I had planned to do this weekend. I had a whole weekend free and what did I do??? Spend most of it reading Julia Quinn's On the Way to the Wedding.
Damn her for writing so well!! Argh!
For a Regency, it was fast paced, witty, and moved at a break neck speed that whipped my emotions around and around. I love stories where the hero and heroine don't realize that they love each other until mid-way through the book. Of course, the reader uncovers their attraction to one another first through a series of small awakenings in a character. They notice the pleasant way the other one laughs. The cute freckles on their nose. The color of their eyes. Their speech pattern and familiar way of walking. Slowly their friendship builds and slowly their love grows until they both can't deny their feelings any longer. Of course, it doesn't end there, somehow the hero has to stop the heroine from making a terrible mistake and marrying the wrong man.
Ah, love. I so love it!
Now if I can only get my work done today ...
posted by J.T. Bock at 9:22 AM
5 Comments:
LOL, You are not alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If I get into a reading mode, I'm up way to late (psst, do NOT look at what time this was posted) LOL.
No, I wasn't reading this weekend, but I should have been.
Such is the nature of our genre. We stay up way to late. ENJOY IT!!!!
Okay, I confess. My reading has fallen horribly off the radar these days. Seriously. I'd rather write than read and my TBR pile is hating my guts for it. So sad. :(
However, my muse is like "Screw the freakin' pile! I don't want to hear you bitchin' and moanin' when I ain't got nothin' for ya. Now that I do, you'll write when I tell you to write. Now snap to it, Missy!"
Stacia— Yes, I definitely enjoyed it but I had so much I wanted to get accomplished. Though it was a nice surprise to get to kick back and just read for a change. :)
Marcia—FUNNY! I know what you mean about your muse. I have a rule of no reading while I'm writing. So ... I totally broke it this time. I thought I'd just read something to help myself relax before I went to bed. Totally wrong! But now I'm going to "snap to it" myself. NO MORE READING until my latest chapters are finished. I obviously can't be trusted. :P
I'm recovering from Brad Thor-itis. I had to read the first four of his books one after another after another, barely coming up for air. The only way I managed to stop was when he introduced a character I hated. Made me throw the book up against the wall in frustration.
What am I reading now?
"Mark of the Assassin" by Daniel Silva
I also started "The Phoenix Code" by Catherine Asaro.
I love me some espionage! I also discovered an awesome new subgenre of sci-fi: something called "near future." Books set ten to twenty years in our future. I love it.
Karm—I'll have to check out those near future stories. Sound really cool and I'll be curious to see what they predict happening with the world in 10-20 years. I read an article in Discover about how sci-fi writers were the harbingers of the future but now technology is growing faster than the stories can get out there and far exceeding modern day authors' predictions.
I haven't read espionage stories, though I'm really big on the movies based on these stories. :)
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