poll: reading frenzy

I can't recall if I've ever posted the photo at the top of the page in my Blatherings before. It's a picture of Jeff in the cottage lake at ice-out years ago. Yes, that's real ice floating around him in the water (hence his agonized expression). I think he was only in for about a second or two, but I'm amazed that he was able to stand the icy temperature for that long!

I also took the picture below that same week, looking out the front of the boathouse at the ice drifting slowly by.





Dead tired this morning, and it's Jodi's fault! :-) She loaned me her copy of Passage by Connie Willis. I usually have two reading projects going at the same time. Right now, I'm reading Tolkien as well as one other.

I started Passage last night, and couldn't put it down until it was past midnight, when I was halfway through. Even then, I had to fight the urge to keep reading. I'm always torn when that happens...I desperately WANT to keep reading, but I know that I'm so tired that I'm not appreciating what I'm reading as much as I would be if I was awake, and wouldn't it be better to close up the book and continue later?

How about the rest of you?

Poll: When you can't put down a book...

When's the last time you felt the same way I did? For what book? Have you ever read an entire book at one sitting? When do you do most of your reading? (just before going to bed? in line at the grocery store? etc.)

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Today's Blatherpics:

	Jeff in icy agony/ecstasy. His dad's kneeling on the dock nearby.
	View from the front of the boathouse at ice-out.