Is it possible to read too much? August 25, 2007
Posted by CamdenKiwi in : Miscellany , trackbackA pile of about 10 books waiting to be reviewed and sent off to the nice folks at Amnesty makes me wonder if I just spend to much time with my nose in a novel. Its not unusual to get through 3 or 4 in a weekend, and I suspect Foyles and Waterstones would have to lay off staff if I stopped buying.
Reading is a very private pleasure, as I think someone once said, but it is also a very introverting one, with information and ideas coming in but very little going out again.
So, I’m sitting looking at the pile, and will write reviews of them timed to be released every few days. Or maybe I’ll just wander off and read another book.
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Normally I’d have said it would be hard to read too much, but then given that rather prodigious rate of yours…! You’re right that reading is very much a private thing, but then so is sitting in a darkened room for two hours staring at a projection, except it doesn’t take as long and you get to discuss what you’ve seen over a beer afterwards. Enjoy the reads anyway!