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I can absolutely empathize with that. Reading is an abnegative, borderline dissociative experience for me. I use to routinely have a problem where I'd accidentally put the book down, and then have a jarring moment where the narrative suddenly stopped and it would take me a second to sort out what happened.There was a point in my life when I would read more than one book at a time. At this point I think they'd all have to be non-narrative nonfiction for me to do that. Part of how many days a book will take me to read is how many hours per day I'll give it; that's a large part of what I'll have to change about what I'm doing when I address those large unread books on my shelves. Well, that and the fact that I'm not super-great about stopping a book before I finish it, and my sleep cycle really doesn't need that sort of disruption at this point.![]()
In no small part, I am reading to make time go away, which can have unfortunate consequences when it returns with full force.