Kensei

I've been reading the same book for weeks now, and I'm bored. It's not that the book isn't good, it's just that it's the same damn book I started over a month ago, and I'm over it. But I'm not the person who can just stop reading something once I've started, because if I get more than 20 pages into a book, I finish it, regardless of how much it sucks.

I'm just weird like that.

I normally go for psych-mystery books, and maybe one of the issues here is that this is more of a techno-geek-espionage story, rather than my normal anticipation-laden genre, and it just seems to drag on and on and on. And while the cultural breakdown is interesting, the last 20 pages seem like they are never going to end. It's hard to convince myself to sit down and read when I'm really not enjoying it, so I have to keep the mantra up that as soon as I finish, I can start something better. Which is quite an enticement because I went to the library earlier this week and picked up a few novels I can't wait to dig into.

But wait I must do.

When I first had Taryn, I was reading four books at the same time. I had a baby-soothing technique book in her room that I would read while I nursed her in the rocker, a novel in my room for those sleepless nights when my internal clock was jacked up, a breastfeeding book in the crapper, and another book downstairs for when she fell asleep on my chest and I didn't want to wake her up to go get my books upstairs. And then, in my sleep-deprived state I could follow them all at the same time. But not anymore. I get lost and confused so easily, it's not even funny. I get lost and confused if I read a Parents and Time magazine at the same time.

So I figured out that I probably read very quickly so that I don't get bored. I can go through four or five books a month if they really interest me, just reading here and there before bed, or while I'm waiting for water to boil...whatever. But evidently that didn't happen with Kensei and now I'm ready to burn the damn thing, just so I won't be tempted to go back and finish it before I whip out the next one.

But really, I'll probably just finish it tonight before I get caught up on the Sopranoes so that this weekend I can devote some time to a worthwhile novel while T-Boog is sleeping, instead of dreading having to finish this damn thing just to start another one.