I couldn’t resist reblogging this ridi-, sorry meticulous piece of research into a syndrome from which I feel I am in partial remission, given that I now fall asleep halfway through a chapter when reading in bed, and sometimes even during the day.
There is a strange urge to turn into that scruffy looking shop… a calling that drags at your gut until you succumb.Dust and grime covers everything; there is nothing in there that you would touch without a hazmet suit and yet… there in the corner is a rusting metal basket full of foxed and battered paper. You spot a title you have been searching for since your youth. Suddenly the world is a beautiful place.
You may have a problem…and there are other signs…
- Waiting in queues becomes quality time with your mobile phone. The Kindle app is a godsend…
- You hope the appointments are running at least two chapters late.
- Flu is welcomed as a six-book-a-day event.
- Decluttering means throwing out the TV to add another bookshelf.
- Getting an early night means a few extra hours reading and even less sleep. (Well, you only had another couple of chapters…
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Thanks for reblogging, Pete. I’m not sure falling asleep counts as remission 🙂
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Intermission then, perhaps?
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That might work… as long as there is ice-cream 🙂
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There’s always ice-cream in a dream!
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😀 Wish there was in mine 😉
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‘Flu is welcomed…’ 🙂
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Oh dear, oh dear, I’m far from being in remission, intermission or any other kind of mission – other than the mission of acquiring (and occasionally reading) more books…
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I have always comforted myself with the thought that information leaks from books on my shelves into my brain even if I don’t read them. Just don’t test me on that one.
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