Not that anyone reads my journal, but....I have book questions

I want to know how you guys read. Do you have a system? What are your criteria for picking up a book? Finishing it? Do you have the mentality that you just gotta finish the whole book, or are you what Nancy Pearleman, librarian extraordinaire, refers to as a mature reader, a reader that can just quite a work that is falling flat for them? Do you start things, then stop, only to pick them up years and years later? Are you a courtly lover of books, or do you beat the crap outta them like I do? Dog-earing, what's your stance? Do cracked spines annoy you?

I was just curious because I noticed that I have something my friend likes to call "bumblebee syndrome". I flit from subject to subject, novel to novel, idea to idea...sometimes I commit, but most often I just drop the book to maybe return to it days, months, or years later. I always finish my book, just not necessarily in any linear pattern. I leave books open, turned down, like broken birds. I crack spines and dog-ear pages. When I was little, I would literally ingest pages of my favorite books. Apparently, I am a devourer. I must wholly own what I am reading. Food analogies work best for how I read...I leave unfinished novels laying around like unfinished sandwiches. I taste, I bite, I chew. I find books either nourishing or fulfilling, or after the fact, realized that though it was quite tasty, the book I was reading really had no nutritional value at all. I get book cravings. Cravings for space opera, for horror, for Victorian era shenanigans, for non fiction. I read for every reason under the sun and for reasons I cannot understand. Most often, though, I graze, because when I was younger, I would read anything anyone put under my nose. Now, I am a much pickier eater. And I lament the lost ability to read ANYTHING, even if it's badly written. Needless to say, my library card is always maxed out, I buy books only to discard them, my room has so many books and manga stacked up, I will literally be buried if there is an earthquake of any magnitude in Ohio. And one day, I will read them all, but never be finished nor satisfied. The nourishment that books provide is much more complex then the dynamic between my physical appetite and my digestive system. I read for nourishment that can never be sated. It’s a good thing, I think, this feeling of never being full. Of satiation but not satiety.

Lately, I have been reading lots of manga. It's because between work and school I have no time to read a real book, and much like what I eat between work and school, they still the reading cravings, but can't really be considered real food. So I ordered a bunch of novels to read, but since I am craving pizza both literally and literary, I ordered, as follows:

"Sebastian"
"Myth Hunters"
"The Nimble Man"
"The Circus of Dr. Lao"
"The Crimson Sword"
"The Sorceress And the Cygnet"

I hope they quell the cravings, because I have so much more I have to read.

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So my hands are still shaking. The boyfriend calls me at work and says "I hit a guy on a bike about fifteen minutes ago. He rolled up onto the front of the car and everything." I almost hit the floor, but apparently, it was the bicyclist's fault and not rokk_lobster's. He reported it to the police, everyone seems to be okay. Just chalk it up to another random day in Lorain.

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Your Personality Cluster is Introverted Feeling

You are: Tolerant, flexible, and open to new ideas. A stickler for integrity and authenticity. Passionate about causes, beliefs, or politics. Likely to have many "best friends" from many walks of life

What's Your Personality Cluster?

Got all that in just three questions, huh? Gonna, gonna, gonna make a quiz that tells all about me, huh? Gotta click the little buttons, huh? Gotta, gotta submit the answer? You, ah, you still workin' on that quiz. No? No? Got a lot of, uh, deep, questions, gonna put together some, uh, observations and such, huh? So, uh, took your time thinking about all three question, right? Got yourself a real accurate quiz, huh? Got lots of depth and, uh, meaning, with just three questions?

There, I mocked it in Stewie.