I hardly ever read novels. It's not that I don't like to. It's that once I start reading a novel, I get sucked into the story and have a hard time doing anything else until I finish reading the book. I don't speed-read, so a 300-page novel takes me several hours. Maybe more. Usually about 3 days. Including staying up late reading, reading during lunch, reading in the morning, and generally not being very productive otherwise. It's a luxury I usually don't have time for. Maybe when I retire. But then my eyes will probably go bad. Waaah Waaah.
Anyway, I bought "Ender's Game" before going on a cruise 3 1/2 weeks ago, so I could read it on the ship. That was cool. I loved the book, in case you haven't read some of my most recent posts. Couldn't get enough of it. In fact I read the book end to end twice on the cruise. Then in an airport on the way back I bought the sequel "Speaker for the Dead". So then I read that. And then I went to the book store and bought the next 4 books after that in the series. So now I have also read "Xenocide", "Children of the Mind", and I just finished "Ender's Shadow" this morning (my favorite after "Ender's Game"). That's 5 novels in less than 4 weeks. Sheesh!!! That's more novels than I had read in the previous 3 years combined.
I have stuff to do, so I am going to lay off the books for a bit. I should ask my brother Que how he does it -- he reads all the time.
I'll wait for a couple of weeks until someone else in the family has finished the new Harry Potter book before I start reading it. And I'll wait on reading the last two books in the Ender's series until my next cruise.