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I had a wonderful day on the weekend. A bit sick so I took myself to couch & then bed and read about 7 hours..
Not a record.. but still a good effort.. I finished the end of one book and also completed my first Jodi Lynn Picoult - "My Sisters Keep" - which I liked.. I had soggy eyes a few times.. Details at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sister's_Keeper
When you have the opportunity and a good book.. how long can or do you read for ?
Not a record.. but still a good effort.. I finished the end of one book and also completed my first Jodi Lynn Picoult - "My Sisters Keep" - which I liked.. I had soggy eyes a few times.. Details at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Sister's_Keeper
When you have the opportunity and a good book.. how long can or do you read for ?
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Re: Reading Marathons ?
03/18When I was a kid, I'd skip school to read. I might read from the moment I told my mother I wasn't going until dinner time, without stopping for lunch, and then continue to read well into the night. So... about 18 hours? I don't have the time to read like that any more, unfortunately. Now I have "responsibilities." Ick. lol
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03/18When the final Harry Potter book came out I had several marathon sessions that weekend to finish it. It helped that my boyfriend was sick in bed anyway!
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03/28Days! Sometimes I get a weekend away from family obligations and all I want to do is read. I'll gobble the books as fast as I can. But usually, I read about 2 hours a day. That's all the time I have in a normal day, and those two hours are at night after my daughter is in bed.
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02/07I don't tend to read for really long periods anymore, but i can also finish most novels in 5 hours of undisturbed reading. I did recently read three novels in one day, but that's high for me.
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02/08the last marathon i did was when Book 4 of the harry potter series came out. I sat down and read all 4 every minute that i could. It ended up being a few days. Then of course when the following books came out, I read those til I was done.
It was the same with me when i was a child, I couldn't stop reading. I would spend the whole weekend in my bed, which was a loft bed up by the window and read my Class Reader all day. I would read a whole book in one day. My mom even made a comment about it that I was reading to much! as if!! LOL.
The library was Heaven on Earth. I could go through stacks easy.
Luckily, my kids also have a healthy appetite for reading. Nothing makes a mom happier than her kids crying because they can't read before they go to bed..........well, you know what i mean! ") -
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02/08Well, it depends ...When I was reading psychology books, I would often read a book a day if it was authored by say, Rogers, Ellis, Jung, May, Haley, Erickson, etc. As I got into postructuralist psychology, such as de Shazer, Keeney, Minuchin, and so on, it would take several days. Now that I'm reading philosophy and theory, it takes a week to read someone like Gergen, Parker, Harre', Derrida, Rorty and ..for Heidegger and Lacan ...a lifetime ( it seems).
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02/09I sometimes do this. it depends on the book, and what I have to do. I tend to agree though, every now and then I need to just spend an entire day reading. It cleans out my head somehow.
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02/11I frequently spend entire weekends, when I have nothing else pressing on my schedule, reading, only taking breaks to eat or sleep or maybe shower, and coffee, lots and lots of coffee.
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10/19Now that I've retired from my previous employee, I can admit to haven taken sick days to read. A sickness? Well yeah, I couldn't help it, and much like teen boys will stay in bed late playing with themselves, my incessant reading of a good book borders on addiction. Maybe this is why I usually gravitate to short stories lately?