Wednesday, April 14, 2010

And Another Thing...

I like about children's books is that they rarely go on the half-read pile.  Increasingly I am reading my "adult" books half-way through and then stopping.  I don't know if this says more about me or the book.  I'm usually dogged in my determination to finish a book, even if I hate it.  I want to say I made it to the end, that I got my moneys worth.  But lately, not so much.  Am I tired, easily distracted, bored, incapable of protracted thought other than, "did I feed the dog this morning?"

I'm hoping it's just a developmental cycle of my adulthood, because I'm starting to feel a little guilty.  On the other hand, I think I have finished almost every picture book I've ever picked up.  Granted, there were a few I wanted to burn by the end, and maybe they never got read again, but at least I finished them.  There's some satisfaction in that.  Maybe I should just switch entirely over to picture books?  Naw...