You may or may not have noticed that I’ve been reading Nemesis Games (book 5 of The Expanse) for at least two months now.
I’m not doing something outlandish like reading a page a day. I didn’t lose interest in the book. I didn’t forget to update the widget. I didn’t even have better things to do.
I simply put it down one day and started reading something else.
I don’t even remember what I put it down for. I just remember laying it to rest on my desk and grabbing the next thing I had on hand. When I finished that book, I went on to another instead of going back.
And then another. And another.
I think I have read about 5 books since putting Nemesis Games down. From Neil Gaiman’s ‘The View From The Cheap Seats’ to Scott Pape’s ‘The Barefoot Investor’, I took a break from fiction.
Somewhere in between then and now, Nemesis Games migrated to my bedside table and back. I guess I thought I’d read a few pages before bed at some point. But no, it lay untouched for weeks.
I picked it up again two days ago and felt like I’d lost nothing by putting it down. I resumed where I left off and just like that, I was completely immersed in this fantastic science fiction epic again.
I’m only halfway through, but I expect I’ll have it finished soon enough. I have no idea what I’m going to read next, beyond the required reading for university. We’ve been set Truman Capote’s ‘In Cold Blood’. I’m not sure what to expect, except that we’re supposed to learn something from it.