Reading Maniac

I just noticed it has been more than a month, so maybe I wasn't as clueless about what to do with my time as I had thought. So, what did I do? Hmm... studied a little (very, very little) for an interview that I chickened out of anyway (ow... should try not to do that again, remembering that makes me feel guilty). Then there was another, less painful interview, and a written test. But mainly I was just reading and playing tennis in the evenings. The reading did get a little out of control in the past week, when I was behaving almost like a chain smoker, except with novels. In fact, I even forgot all about the tennis, and can't even remember being out of the house or even the sofa except for very brief periods. This was something that I thought I'd grown out of, but hey, I am a constant mystery (yes, even to myself).
It started with 'Hannibal', because I had begun reading it before leaving college. After that, I re-read 'Silence of the Lambs' which I had last read at least half a decade ago and had forgotten parts of. I am not really into the gruesome stuff, but I liked the way the sequel followed so logically from where the first book left off. Which had to be the case with all sequels. That seemed like something to think about, so I started reading the 'Twilight' series. Yeah, I know it is supposed to be for teenagers, but that particular consideration has never stopped me before. I remember staying up late while in college to read Harry Potter (this seems to be my day for embarrassing revelations). Anyway, so that was four and a half books of vampire stories in about as many days. Now the problem with reading a lot of books about the same characters, or even just a really long book like 'War and Peace' or 'A Suitable Boy' is that you can get attached to the characters. I have heard that this happens with serials also. I had a friend who used to have dreams about a series he was watching, but then again, that is to be expected when you watch six episodes back to back. Another thing that is to be expected is having to wear glasses because of all the staring, whether at the pages or the screen (in the case of e-books) or the television screen or whatever. Glasses being the one thing I want to avoid, I will try to be more restrained in my reading from now on. Writing that down made me realize just how ridiculous that sounds, like I had to be tied down with chains or something to prevent me from reading. But it probably isn't much of an exaggeration, when you consider that I also managed to read a Jeffrey Archer (always full of improbable coincidences, but great reading) and a Grisham (The Associate, not as good as some others he has written) in between all this.
To get my mind off all this manic reading, and also because I really want to, I am going to attend a friend's wedding tomorrow. I will be going with another of my friends, who herself is married. I just realized that roughly half my friends are married. Well there's always the other half. Hmm... seems like a good topic for a future post. Well, I have to rush now, because the passport office seems to be taking ages to process my application. Not that my being there will speed things up, but it makes me (well, my dad actually) feel like I am doing something useful. Later, then...