I’m not much into all of the social-software-sites out on the internets these day.  You know, Twitter, LinkdIn, StumbleUpon and the like.  Hell, I barely even use this blog, which I happen to love.  And while I don’t go in for those types of sites much, I have found one that I do semi-sorta-enjoy.  It’s GoodReads, a site where you can keep track of your own books as well as see what your “friends” are reading (and have read).  It’s pretty cool but it leads me to a question I’ve long wondered.

Are you people freaks or what??

Ok, that may have come out a little harsher than I meant.  What I mean is that I see a bunch of you out there (you know who you are) reading two, three, four (and more!) books a week.  No, I didn’t misspell ‘month’ or even ‘year’.  A WEEK!  What the hell?  How is that even possible?  I would love to do that but find it just impossible.  Well, actually, now that I think about it, I probably I could do it if I would only suspend other silly activities such as work, sleep, eating and actually walking from spot to spot in my house. 

So how do you do it?  Surely you are not reading every word, right?  Maybe that’s my problem.  I read every single word.  And if I didn’t quite get the meaning of a sentence or a paragraph or a chapter, I just might go back and read it again.  And maybe even again.  I don’t really want to do that.  I want to read two, three, four (and more!) books a week.  So help me out here, gang.  Share your speed reading secrets with me.  Seriously.  I have a lot of books on my “to read” list.

Oh, and check out GoodReads if you are of a mind to.  It’s pretty slick.  Of course, once you do, there goes some of that precious reading time.  See?  It’s a vicious cyle, I tells ya.