Reading Frenzy

I don't read as much as I did when I was younger. I can never find a comfortable place with the right lighting. (I'm hoping the new kindle paperwhite that I have on pre-order will take care of the lighting problem.) To top things off, I've been reading actual physical books lately, which adds another level of discomfort. After years of nearly exclusive kindle reading, I find reading a physical book to be awkward.

But somehow I am in a reading frenzy. I can't read enough, and I fantasize about spending hours every day reading. The number of books at the top of my next-to-read list is 20 - 30! I'm currently in the 6th Gotrek and Felix novel and reading a book on Buddhism. I recently purchased the latest edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature, and I'm itching to start on page 1 and read all the way through. There's a recently ordered copy of Godel, Escher, Bach waiting on my table to be re-read as well as a new translation of some ancient Pali texts about the teachings of the Buddha. I bought four new sci-fi/fantasy books for my kindle today, and next week the very last Thomas Covenant book will be published, meaning I need to queue up the last four books of that series.

It's crazy how much reading I want to do right now. And yet, I make almost no time to read. I came home from work today with the intention to read. Instead I hooked up the PS3 and ended up spending the entire evening getting that all worked out. Now I'm overdue to hit the sack, but I haven't even cracked a book today. *sigh*

"When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff." — Mike Tyson