Cool. I got the DH a Fire for Xmas (since he's an Amazon Prime member), so I'm in the process of figuring how to make it usable overseas. I may swipe either it or his old Kindle for reading, as Kindle for iPad has some limitations.
Reavers ain't men. Or they forgot how to be. Now they're just nothing. They got out to the edge of the galaxy, to that place of nothing, and that's what they became.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Volans - Jan 06, 2012 7:58:25 am PST #17369 of 28690
move out and draw fire
Liese S. - Jan 06, 2012 8:06:05 am PST #17370 of 28690
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
"You're exactly 5/6 of the way done," I'll say to myself, "that's a nice round number, pick it up again tomorrow."
Ha. Me too. But I'm not good at convincing myself to put it down. I need more self-discipline.
Strix - Jan 06, 2012 8:29:39 am PST #17371 of 28690
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
the story, if it's a good one*, just starts to happen around me, and the pages disappear. When I'm finished, I can quote from the text and seem to have most of the story in my head. (*some stories, my eyes just slide right the hell off, and I can't finish them at ALL. And some I feel the urge to take a red pen to instead of reading.)
Does anyone else read like that?
Yeah; I don't notice turning pages, hard copy or e-readers, and I don't care about pages, because I pretty usually read a book at a gulp.
And I binge-read. Like, two days in bed, nothing but novels and tea and cigarettes; if I wore something more flowy, I could be in fucking Bloomsbury. And you know, wasn't using Nook.
hippocampus - Jan 06, 2012 8:44:33 am PST #17372 of 28690
not your mom's socks.
Yup, I'm a binge reader too. When I should be sleeping. The iPad hurts less than a hardback when it thwaps me on the nose when I fall asleep reading, fwiw. My eyes don't deal as well with the glare after 3am, though.
I love hearing about how people read.
Raq, how's R liking the Fire?
Sophia Brooks - Jan 06, 2012 8:45:15 am PST #17373 of 28690
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Does anyone else feel a little hungover by a reading binge? A little headachy and nauseated?
erikaj - Jan 06, 2012 8:47:03 am PST #17374 of 28690
"Somewhere in this building is our talent." Toby Ziegler, my spirit animal
depends.
hippocampus - Jan 06, 2012 8:48:02 am PST #17375 of 28690
not your mom's socks.
Sophia, as with other indulgences, that depends on my book/drink of choice.
Volans - Jan 06, 2012 8:52:58 am PST #17376 of 28690
move out and draw fire
Sox, he hasn't even looked at it yet. He's been too busy playing with the Xmas gifts he got me.
Connie Neil - Jan 06, 2012 8:53:03 am PST #17377 of 28690
brillig
I think I read too fast, but when I get caught up in a story I can't help myself. I think it affects my writing, because I think everyone reads the way I do, and I tend to gloss over dense paragraphs of description to get back to the story.
Kate P. - Jan 06, 2012 9:01:25 am PST #17378 of 28690
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
I'm reading the descriptions of all you immersive readers with deep envy. I *used* to read that way, as a kid and maybe up through college or thereabouts, but somewhere along the way, I stopped being able to do that. I'm a much slower reader these days, and I frequently read a paragraph two or three times before moving on to the next one. The thought that I might have missed a word or not fully envisioned a description will nag at me until I go back and reread. Every now and then, if a book really sucks me in, I can hit short stretches where I'm reading more quickly and just sort of letting the text flow over me, but it's rare these days. And I miss it.