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This week’s Booking Through Thursday<\/a> question (posted early on Deb’s blog<\/a>) is one that interests me, so I thought I’d take a crack at it:<\/p>\n

Okay, so the other day, a friend was commenting on my monthly reading list and asked when I found the time to read. In the ensuing discussion, she described herself as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153goldilocks\u00e2\u20ac\u009d when it comes to reading — she needs to have everything juuuuuust right to be able to focus. This caught my attention because, first, I thought that was a charming way of describing the condition, but, two, while we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve talked about our reading habits, this is an interesting wrinkle. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never really thought about it that way.<\/p>\n

So, this is my question to you — are you a Goldilocks kind of reader? Do you need the light just right, the background noise just so loud but not too loud, the chair just right, the distractions at a minimum? Or can you open a book at any time and dip right in, whether it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s for twenty seconds, while waiting for the kettle to boil, or indefinitely, like while waiting interminably at the hospital — as long as the book is open in front of your nose, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re happy to read?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ha! I’m anything but<\/em> a Goldilocks reader. While I sometimes can’t read a particular book at a certain moment, there’s rarely a moment when I can’t read at all.<\/p>\n

And I’m a fully absorbed reader. Mum used to ask me to do chores and would come back an hour later to yell at me for leaving them undone. “When did you ask me to do that?” I’d complain. “I never heard you.” But, she’d point out, I’d replied, so clearly I had. Since then I’ve discovered the part of me that will talk to you while I’m reading is the same part of me that will pick up the phone in the middle of the night and converse logically and lucidly with you while the conscious part of my brain is still occupied with the task at hand (in that case, sleeping).<\/p>\n

I read while I eat. I’m learning to read while I knit. Hell, I even read while I walk home from work. There is always a book in my bag and piles around the Burrow, just waiting for me to decide I cannot wait a second longer before opening it up and diving in.<\/p>\n

So, no Goldilocks reading for me, thank you very much. I’m an all books all the time kind of girl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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