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JohnBem
Posted 2017-04-29 1:47 PM (#15630 - in reply to #13703)
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Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania		Just as it took me longer than usual to finish The Birthgrave, it has taken me a long time as well to complete Vazkor, Son of Vazkor. These are good books, very good, and while the writing in them is dense, complex, and thought-provoking, I don't think that's what is slowing me down. I think my problem is a personal one; for the last 30 months or so, since before I even joined WWE, I've been reading primarily genre fare; despite my great love for science-fiction and fantasy, I think I overdid it. Recently, I started reading books about rock-and-roll, another great passion of mine. I'm currently blazing my way through Please Kill Me: The Uncensored History of Punk by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, and after that I've got lined up Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung by Lester Bangs, Lonely Boy: Tales From a Sex Pistol by Steve Jones, Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello, and Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein. These are the books that I am most interested in reading right now; nonetheless, I will soldier on. To meet the High-Fantasy Challenge deadline, I will dutifully need to read 10-12 pages a day of Tanith Lee's Quest for the White Witch. Then, to meet the Grand Misstresses challenge by the end of the year, I will have to be very mindful of how much I daily need to read of those works. These then will be the first two reading challenges I've ever undertaken that will be true challenges; normally I speed through challenges, beating deadlines by weeks if not months; these current challenges will be the first where I've truly taken it right down to the wire. I am deriving pleasure from these challenges, and the books so far have been very good, but I've just never been in this weird mood and strange place where I have to consciously goad myself to successfully complete a reading challenge. Onward!

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