Today’s Book Blogger Hop question is: If you are at a really good point in a book and the phone rings or the door bell rings, do you stop reading or let the phone or door bell go unanswered?
I am not positive this has ever come up. I’m an introvert with largely introvert friends, so–no one ever rings my doorbell unexpectedly, and even phone calls are rare (texts are a different story, but they also come with a different expectation about urgency of responding). However! I think the real question here is how easy it is to interrupt my reading, and the answer is–extremely!
I’m used to reading in snatches. Ten minutes here, fifteen there, two minutes in line at the grocery store. So really, that means I’m used to putting books down. My brain stores where I was in the story quite effectively, and I can pick books up again and resume (I even have an instinct for where to look at the page to resume–if I fight it and try to consciously look for the spot where I stopped, I end up hunting around on the page only to finally realize it was very close to where my eyes initially landed. Truth!)
That doesn’t mean I’m always happy to set a book down, especially if things are getting intense, or something is about to be revealed. But generally I’ll do it if something comes up that means I need to stop reading for now.
Except for the last two hundred pages of almost any Juliet Marillier book. Those things are intense!!!
Andre Norton and I have a complicated relationship. It’s sort of like an acquaintance who was really fun a few times, and now you keep trying to become better friends even though they’ve never been quite so fun again. I love Norton’s Gryphon Trilogy, and for reasons that should suggest a really great author (beautiful writing style, intriguing characters with compelling relationships, complex world). And…it never quite works out with her other books. I actually liked Night of Masks reasonably well–but it’s no Gryphon Trilogy. It may have given me some insights though.
A little history: I saw the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie in theatres three times, and Captain Jack Sparrow became one of my all-time favorite characters. The only midnight showing I’ve ever been to was Pirates 2: Dead Man’s Chest. Life has changed a little in the last fourteen (!) years since Captain Jack first sailed in, but I was still pretty excited to see Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales this past weekend. You never can tell by the time you get to installment five of a series, but I intended to take it for what it was, and it was a fun time!
