Comments on: Nibblers and chewers

By: MG Braden

MG Braden — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 15:37:46 +0000

Lilke Bernita, I’m usually a guzzler. I’m a nibbler only by necessity, if I have to be. Otherwise, I’m the girl who stayed up and read her Nancy Drews by flashlight, under the covers.

By: Merry

Merry — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:58:00 +0000

I’m a nibbler at work because I’m constrained by the limits of my breaks, but at home I’m a gobbler of most things. Really *hard* SF I nibble because although I like it, it often makes my head hurt. Romance, thrillers and fantasy I blitz through – but I will often go back and re-read them if I enjoyed them a lot. (although I don’t necessarily re-read them any slower!)
Non-fiction. I plod. Even when I enjoy the topic, I plod. Sigh.

By: Jennifer Estep

Jennifer Estep — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:51:23 +0000

Oh yes, I’ve fallen into the “one more chapter” trap a time or two myself.

Too funny about the Books Anonymous meeting! We could read our books then talk about how we need to stop … it truly is a vicious cycle.

By: Anna Louise Lucia

Anna Louise Lucia — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:52:33 +0000

I’m definitely a swallower.

Actually, I often have two books on the go. One for chewing and one for nibbling….

By: olga

olga — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:23:05 +0000

I am a nibbler/chewer. It can depend on simply the time of year. Summer is my nibbler time. I have absolutely no time to read (kids home from school), so I read whenever I can. During the other times in the year, I can be a chewer especially if the book is fabulous, but then the heart ache of ending a great book and still wanting more, so sad. So I really try to control the chewing,

By: Melissa

Melissa — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:17:42 +0000

I’m an nibbler due to time constraints also. But if a book grabs me by the throat, then I can stand to lose a few hours of sleep.

Since I also tell myself, “just another chapter” I think we can start a 12 step program. But what would we do in our spare time waiting for a BA (books anonymous) meeting to start?

And if they ever made a book holder that attaches to your body I’d have to wear a helmet, but oh, the books I could read.

By: Cassie

Cassie — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:00:59 +0000

I will always have a book with me to nibble on in free time, but I love to chew whole-heartedly on whatever I’m reading once I fall under its spell.

By: Stephanie Feagan

Stephanie Feagan — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:56:34 +0000

No nibbling for me. I’m a total glutton. I won’t even start a book if I don’t have time to finish, because regardless of what else is going on – house fire, urgent phone calls, work, pretty much life in general – I’m not looking up until I’m done. This drives my family nuts, but I explain that to me, reading is the same as watching a movie. If you put in a DVD and start watching, do you really want to stop it, go to bed, then see the rest in small bites throughout the week? No way! You have to see the whole thing, so you know how it ends.

My biggest problem is that I pretty much write the same way. I drink a lot of coffee when I’m writing a book. It quickly becomes a marathon of late nights and early mornings and me glued to the computer, because I have to know how it ends.

I wonder if there’s a 12 step program?

By: Patricia Woodside

Patricia Woodside — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:56:11 +0000

Both. Depends on how much the book draws me in and how much time I have available to me, which fluctuates constantly. I start every day reading and I’ll stay up late for a really good one!

By: Mary Stella

Mary Stella — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:55:04 +0000

I read in chunks — like when I first wake up in the morning and at night right before I turn off the bedside light and go to sleep. On weekends, it’s a wonderful treat to gorge myself on a book that I’m reading and if it’s a story that I’m totally in love with, I’ll steal time away from other things. Sure, you could say that sometimes I nibble… but I nibble some, then a little more… then more nibbling until I’ve consumed a big portion!