I am awesome at quitting.  Sometimes, like right now, I quit things before I even start them.

Remember this post back at the end of January about how I was joining the Slow Readers Book Club? And how happy I was that I had something like 6 weeks to read the book because I’m so lazy?

So, umm… yeah.  It’s March 2. The review is due March 4. And I started the book… uh… yesterday.

Before you get all judgey, keep in mind I had the inside of my uterus scraped and then burned. That and the recovery was fairly time-consuming.  Not to mention, it sort of sucked.  Especially the part where I still have a bruise on my arm two weeks later from the nurse missing (puncturing?) my vein.

And the part where I couldn’t keep any food down at all, for like 3 days.  That sort of sucked, too.

By the way, do you know how they give you nausea medicine when you keep throwing up? Think about it.

That really sucked.

For some reason, I thought going into this that recovering from surgery would be a great time to lay around and read a good book. And maybe it would have been if there hadn’t been so much above-mentioned suckage.  And if it hadn’t been for my painkillers.

It wasn’t exactly the best time to read a book with an eye to writing a review about it.

But since this book was on my To Read list before I heard about the club, I was determined to power through.  More importantly, I wanted the writing practice of doing a review. I don’t have a job, and I read quickly, so I thought I could still make it work.

Work.  That was all I could think about as I was reading a book I was really enjoying. I was especially enjoying taking notes, and thinking about how I wanted to phrase certain things in my review. At least seven different posts about my past and my family popped into my head. All in the first 30 pages.

And I wanted to go write at least one of those posts, but I couldn’t. Because I had work to do.

Wait a minute! Reading, and writing about reading, and reading something that inspires me to go write are some of my very favorites! When did this become work?

I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that’s the exact opposite of the intention of the club.

Honestly? I think I’m just not a book club person, you know? Some people are, some people aren’t.

I think it says a lot that I’ve been a voracious reader all my life, and have been friends with other readers, and I’ve never been in a book club.  The thought just never appealed to me, and I still can’t quite figure out why.

It’s not the deadlines.  I don’t mind those.  Especially for something like this where I could just as easily catch up with the next book they pick.

It’s not the not always getting to pick the book.  I’m interested in reading everything, so there really is no “something I wouldn’t have chosen for myself”.  And if I didn’t like it, I would have no problem telling my peeps that it sucked so much I couldn’t even finish it.

It’s not the peeps in this case, either.  That’s the beauty of online – if you happen to come across someone you don’t care for, just don’t interact with them.  Simple.

Maybe it’s a combination of all those? I really don’t know.

I do know that even though I read quickly, it takes me a while to actually finish a book, because I read at least two, and sometimes as many as four, books at the same time.*

I still intend to post a review of Half Broke Horses when I’m finished reading it.  I can’t tell you when that might be, though.  Because the other book I’m reading is Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy.  And it is very, very awesome.

Or maybe it’s just ok, and I just think it’s awesome because OMG the Final Five! Baltar! the Cylons! Starbuck! Earth! the Colonials!

We’ll see when I post that book review.

Yes, I just said that I am not only reading a book about the philosophy of a science fiction show, but that I’m going to post a review when I’m done.

* Unless you are some sort of professional who wants to pay me to do reviews.  Then, I’ll read whatever you want me to as quickly as you want me to read it.  I won’t even complain.  Anywhere that you could read it, anyway.

I’ll just kick it old school and get a handwritten journal that no one else is allowed to read.

Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy, book clubs, book reviews, bsg, Half Broke Horses, reading

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