Reading and Getting Lost

My name is Kira Engler and I have an addiction -

I have been reading and reading and reading! I can't stop! I think all 3 of my boys are ready to take away my library card, but I won't let them!! I can't help myself, I simply love to read. It takes my mind off of all of the things that I need to do and out of my life. All that without taking me away. I simply get lost inside of books. I feel like it is an escape from reality, which I suppose is the meaning of reading anyway. But I have been steadily reading for about a month and a half. I can get a book read in about 2 or 3 days depending on the other daily activities.

Life for me consists of 2 little boys, 1 big boy, a dog, and a house with stuff that needs to be done. When I have my nose in a book, and because of my eyes it normally really is in the book, I let all of those things slip into the back of my mind. It is the only thing that I do that takes everything out of my mind. Whether there are sad, happy, discouraged or angry thoughts in my head, a book simply takes them all away. Reading is the ONLY thing that clears my head. I can get lost in the book so much that I usually speed through and forget big parts. Which is really a gift so then when I read the book again it is often like reading it for the first time! I am a Mystery reader so I always want to read it straight through so I can know who did it. Often skipping the mundane to get to the meat. I also have a TERRIBLE memory so when I reread the book I always forget who did it or how they were caught. Silly to read and forget but lovely to go back and reread with the same intensity as the first time around!!

After I finish a book it takes about 5 minutes to pick up a new one! Now I don't neglect my boys; I feed them when they are hungry, I bath them so they are not smelly, and I love them throughout. But they know when mom has her book stay away!! Now in trying to find time to read said books I often forget to eat myself and skip the shower to read instead. I am trying to fit everything in and find it is hard but worth it in the end to have a little time to and for myself. Now I have to stop typing so that I may go back and finish my book!