flight paths discussion

When do you know that you have become a Reading addict, When it's .....

The first thing friends and family identify you with.

A career and a hobby.

You are still reading with the light on when the early morning deliveries start outside.

You keep running for closing doors at you normal bus/train/tube-metro stop....

Or find yourself at the end of the line.

Better than sex.

You pick up 3 year old magazines whilst waiting at the Doctor's surgery....

or you read all the notices pinned on every wall even though the medical conditions will never apply.

Your first shop is always a bookshop, and at the airport new books weigh more than duty free.

You actually read Terms and Conditions right through.

The first present you consider for others.

You have to build an extension, use one room as a library or put in 'supports' for the loft.

ok-I might qualify.

In the context of the Group, and before the Moderators see me adding topics (without permission)and perhaps in the wrong place .....

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And to be open, I think I qualify for 5 of the criteria.

If addiction is defined as an activity that assumes prime importance in a persons life , around which all other activity is organized, if in theory I might deny this, in practice, you will have to count me in.

well I don't read every single word of terms and conditions, and I send my books on by parcel post to avoid airport weigh in.

When I went to visit my brother in Thailand I brought him a box of books.

And have developed the talent of being able to completely ignore housework and the chaos around me to immerse myself in reading.

I am so tempted to start a parallel thread based on addiction to Goodreads, given the number of entries I have made today !

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Seems like I am now regularly peeking here in the morning when I should be getting ready for work, meditating and reading quietly.
Have a great day Ice

Well I am treating some of my addiction, have delisted from 3 groups to focus more.

this is odd. I was sure I wrote part 3 of my saga here this morning, about my fear of the box and how much of my life is now contained here. Maybe its somewhere else...
I am calm now because i have my fix

another sure symptom: I have been checking in mornings and no longer questioning whether I should. Now this morning, for the first time, I put the box on sleep, took my bath, and am back here.
Is this it for me? Hooked against my better intentions.

Unravelled today and joined a new Group !
But I know where my heart belongs.

Ice wrote: "Unravelled today and joined a new Group !
But I know where my heart belongs."

GR and its subsiduary groups is plenty for me.
But I'm noticing I'm neglecting my reviews to keep up with chat. Altho I am getting a bit faster, I am so easily diverted.

And where does your heart belong?

My virtual heart seems to be a GR member and especially Flight Paths !

oh this is nice to hear.

I've been goading HRO to do a bit of streamlining, then I hope each member will invite one or two other selected friends. I like it that the group is small, but perhaps adding a few more brilliant minds would be interesting.

Triple addiction (Reading,GR,Library) is ever so tempting - not yet ready to admit I need fixing though.

:-)

This is very appropriate Judy and thanks for posting.
You lost me at #7 though.
Not ready to have this addiction removed!
Like Ice, I am in precontemplation mode and enjoying it too much to want to quit until my eyes do.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

:-)

This seems to be new goodreads glitch...posting a comment that does not show up, and then shows up later, or something. A delay?
Well I forget what I said here and now its time to grab a bit more zzzzzzzs before it gets light

Kinkajou wrote: "Magdelanye wrote: "This seems to be new goodreads glitch...posting a comment that does not show up, and then shows up later, or something. A delay?..........,i>

I think there is a refresh issue with the system today. Its a ******* when you do 'Last Letter' or 'Word/Title association' posts

I have finally discovered how to use the sleep function on my laptop ( I told you I was a virtual babe)
This is a good thing, right?
I took my bath and ate breakfast and listened to a sermon in Maltese? Gogon? It sounded like a mix of French, Spanish, Arabic and Africaans.
Ice, I'm not sure....

Kinkajou wrote: "Magdelanye wrote: "This seems to be new goodreads glitch...posting a comment that does not show up, and then shows up later, or something. A delay?
Well I forget what I said here and now its time t..."

yes bah and humbug.
I have missed quite a few comments somehow.
I like reading a thread at random and finding something new

Kinkajou wrote: "Triple that motion - I don't want my addition removed. It's the one "addiction" I have that doesn't either cause me to be fat or stupid :D"

This morning I experienced the classic addiction scenario, feeling it would be noble of me not to give in to the temptation to turn on the machine. There followed the usual struggle between excuses and justifications. In the end of course, here I am am, still unbathed, but very glad I tuned in to some thoughtful and even crucial bits of dialogue that went on while I was off line.

This group has hands-down the most consistently interesting discussions vis-a-vis my own thoughts & personal obsessions/interests.

@Kinkajou-I agree about the relative worth of this addiction in my own life. Although it does lead me to "stupidly" overspend & sometimes to so much useless anxiety about quantity of what I want to read that it interferes with the quality of my present reading experience.

But as I've heard it said, these are "high quality problems."

:)

Ice wrote: "zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

:-)"
I cant find the thread where we were discussing but Sandi finally answered my (repeat) request and here is link to phantom group

http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7...

What was it that made you addicted to reading ..... family, school, role models ......

Did you live in a 'book friendly house' or find your own path ?

I lived in a very book friendly house although we didn't have much money to buy books. But we still had some-my father, history, my mother fiction & poetry. And reading was a highly valued activity-it could get you out of doing almost anything else!

But I was reading before I was 3-anything and everything.

Ice wrote: "What was it that made you addicted to reading ..... family, school, role models ......

Did you live in a 'book friendly house' or find your own path ?"

well, there was the fact that we werent allowed to do anything else that gave us such privacy and excitement. Books were a window on the world, removed from my uncomfortable and restricted life.

I too taught myself to read, Im sure my mom colluded, before I was 4.

Luckily my parents approved of books and took us to the library. But we also had books on shelves that I had to wait until my mother deemed I was ready. I don't remember much of Lorna Doone, but I do remember being punished for reading it.

I also remember her confiscating The Whiteoaks of Jalna and ripping the cover off. Granted, it was a pretty steamy cover, but I never did figure out why she got so contorted over it, I dont remember this family saga being anything but coy, certainly not smut as she judged it to be.

We had books in the house, and I guess I was read to.

It took me a while to get up to speed at school with reading, but I was the youngest

thank you ice for reminding me for that facet. I think its crucial. Yes, I was read to

you know you are a reading addict when you become totally discombobulated upon discovering that you left your book at home

omg-I lose my mind. I actually found myself without a book or a Kindle yesterday after driving my daughter to the airport & then my son to the store. I was waiting for him when I made the horrifying discovery. Luckily, there was an old missalette in the car. :(

I confess to both reading and book addiction. I tend to collect books that I want to read, and stack them all around me. I feel calmer knowing that there are always many options at my finger tips when I finish the one I'm involved in.

My mother read to me constantly when I was little, and I started reading like a fiend in first grade. Though we didn't have money to buy many books, I used the library at school, and occasionaly got to order a couple of Scholastic books (remember those orders?).

Melissa wrote: "I confess to both reading and book addiction. I tend to collect books that I want to read, and stack them all around me. I feel calmer knowing that there are always many options at my finger tips..."

I could have written that!

In first grade the fact that I already knew how to read set me apart from my classmates, and I was marked as a troublemaker ever since!