On Reading

Traditionally I'm a contemporary reader. I walk into the bookstore and head right to the shelves that hold new authors & new fiction. Because of my tendency to flock to current authors I end up missing out on a lot of classics.

My step grandma reads by the rule of alternating every other book between a contemporary author and a classic. I read by the rule of reading contemporary authors and trying to stick in a classic whenever I remember too.

But how can you resist when they're this gorgeous?

Luckily for the classics our local book store offers classics for much cheaper than contemporarys and when I find myself there with not much money I am drawn towards the classics. But still, I've only read a couple in the past year.

Recently I finished slogging through Jane Eyre, and while the story is wonderful and the text is well written I cannot get over how long it took me. I read this book in 8 weeks, quadruple what it normally takes me to get through a book.

There were times I wished I could put it down and pick up a book from my "read me next" pile but luckily I have trouble justifying putting a book down. Truth be told, I haven't stopped reading a book in the middle since college, and that was just because textbooks are boring.

So I plucked away, until the very last page, when I closed the cover, tucked it away, and picked up a new book.

What's your reading style?