I am in the midst of some obsessive behavior and the odd thing is that it is touching off more obsessive behavior. First of all let me preface this by saying that I tend er towards the obsessive side and I am a big dork. Well, honestly obsessive might not be the right word.
It is fairly normal for me to go through up and down phases with reading. Once I crack a book and start reading I have a hard time removing myself from the story and before I know it I am staying up much, much later than I should and trying to fit reading the book of the moment into every possible open second throughout the day. So I tend to read 2 or 3 books very quickly and then I take a break from reading for a while, sometimes a month or two, sometimes more.
If I were to let myself have a book going at all times I would probably neglect far too many things. Honestly it is not unheard of for me to forget to feed myself sometimes because I get so into the book of the moment.
The sad thing about my latest obsession is that it isn't actually new. I will say before I make my confession that I frequently reread books I love. I read Pride and Prejudice yearly. I usually get the itch to reread one of the Harry Potter books and To Kill a Mockingbird on a yearly basis as well.
Last year around Thanksgiving I got sucked into Twilight like no other book before it. I literally finished it in less than 2 days and quickly moved on to New Moon. Even though we traveled over the holiday I managed to finish all four books in less than 2 weeks. It did help that I had a round trip flight from Denver to Dallas to fill with reading, but honestly I was so drawn into the story of Edward and Bella that I read whenever I had spare time and ended up missing out on a lot of sleep.
Like I said before I get sucked into books but I am not usually that bad.
Well it happened again. Last week I decided that I was in the mood to reread Twilight. I figured that since I had already read it I wouldn't be so strongly sucked into it. I was wrong. So it is a week later and I have already read through all four books again. It helped that I already was familiar with the story and honestly there was a few sections that I skipped entirely. However, I have no idea how much sleep I owe myself at this point, I have missed so much of it.
So what do I do with myself now? Of course I couldn't leave it where it alone and decided to visit the author, Stephenie Meyer's, website. On the site she has unofficial playlists go along with all four published books from the Twilight saga and Midnight Sun.
So I listened through her playlists as I went about m y business today and I found myself actually really liking some of what she has suggested so now my obsessive reading is morphing into obsessive music gathering. I started a list of new bands, and new albums from bands that I was familiar with. I moved from StephenieMeyer.com to Pandora where my list has continued to grow.
Now all I can think about is finding more new music and maybe a bigger iPod to put it all on. My dark ages shuffle is like the typewriter of iPods.
I am so sure some of you are totally laughing at me right now. I can't help it, I'm such a loon.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Then I'm a loon too! I read books over and over again. My favorite ones to re-read are all the ones by Sidney Sheldon. I will read a three book series in a weekend because I can't put them down. Because of that fact I don't allow myself to read as often as I'd like too. There are mouths to feed, clothes to wash, and such that would get neglected if I pick up a book.
(If you like historical Christian drama/romance then you'd like Tracie Peterson and Lori Wick. I only discovered them a few years ago and am so excited that there are over 70 books between the two of them yet for me to read.) Yes I get excited about the prospect of reading 70 books - I'm a loon remember? :)
LOL I am joining the loon club to. I will get through a book in 2 days I get so obsessed about squeazing it in, the problem is sometimes I don't remember the book because I wanted to rush through it so quickly.
As for music I need to update mine I swear I have listened to the same songs over and over for a year now. Get yourself a Sansa Clip they are great and they just came out with a 8MB. I think thats what hubby will be getting for xmas.
Ooohhh, I love Pandora radio! I think I might be obsessed with it. :)
I don't think you are crazy but you are going to tempt me into re-reading the Twilight series. I am not much of a rereader (one of the reasons I usually don't buy books) but I plan to make an exception for Twilight. I think the reason I don't re-read is because I usually have 4-5 books in the pipeline waiting to be read. Maybe if I ever ran out of new books to read I would probably start rereading. After watching Harry Potter with B in theater I wanted to read the Harry Potter series but I haven't got started yet.
Don't worry about the iPod either. I also have a shuffle and Nate doesn't even have an iPod!
Love ya!
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