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.
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?
Does anyone else feel a little hungover by a reading binge? A little headachy and nauseated?
Sophia, as with other indulgences, that depends on my book/drink of choice.
Sox, he hasn't even looked at it yet. He's been too busy playing with the Xmas gifts he got me.
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.
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.
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.
Well, while it's a great way to be immersed in YA or thrillers or trashy romances I read, it was NOT good for studying chemistry in college (can't gulp paragraphs of that, had a hard time figuring out how to read SLOWLY), or anything that's all about the literary/writing/words....needless to say, I rarely read fancy books. :) Or as Javachik said while I was talking to her the other day "So, for you reading 'The Help' is practically literary?" It's true.
