Weird question maybe but I find myself being so sensitive at times that I have to put down the book I’m reading and wait some time before I read again.
It can be for example when it all is looking dark and I don’t think thing are going to turn around. It’s silly I guess but I feel so overwhelmed and nervous that I need a break at times.
I’m reading the last chapter in Simon Scarrows book The honor of Rome. Reading the last chapters and I just know things are going to go bad. Or at least I fear it will so I have to take a break before reading again.
I know it’s silly but wondered if someone else felt the same at times.
Ive done this and ive also done the opposite-read it all in one sitting because it was making me sick and I needed to just finish it.
I had to take breaks with memoirs for a geisha even though I was so enraptured by the prose because I was so sad. With lolita I finished it in one sitting because I was disgusted.
Additionally when I read poetry or some novels with nontraditional prose (the road is a really good example) I cant just finish it in one sitting. I get struck by how beautiful it is and need to take breaks to think about it.