Weird question maybe but I find myself being so sensitive at times that I have to put down the book I’m reading and wait some time before I read again.
It can be for example when it all is looking dark and I don’t think thing are going to turn around. It’s silly I guess but I feel so overwhelmed and nervous that I need a break at times.
I’m reading the last chapter in Simon Scarrows book The honor of Rome. Reading the last chapters and I just know things are going to go bad. Or at least I fear it will so I have to take a break before reading again.
I know it’s silly but wondered if someone else felt the same at times.
Sure I do. I often like to put a book down regularly to think about what I think is going to happen next. Makes me feel like an analytical genius when I am close to right and makes the unexpected that much more “shocking” when I am wrong.
The book that best illustrates this for me is Gnomon by Harkaway. I have read the first half to two thirds five or six times since it came out in '18. Haven’t finished it yet because I have no idea of where it is going and when I do finally finish it, I will then forever know.
Also, I would like to finally convince one of the sadly few readers that I know to read it as well. I WANNA TALK ABOUT IT. Lol. And I find it much more fun to discuss a book when there is no “I know how this ends” power dynamic.