Just Some Place

I used to be a voracious reader. I would sit in a restaurant booth, eat some food, drink some tea, then progress to read for hours and hours. I'm surprised that I never got booted from any place. Many, may days were spent like that, consuming a lot of series and titles.

It was much easier when I had no family, just me, myself and I. Now that I've aged and have a large number of other distractions it's a little more challenging to find the time to get a chapter in here and there. I will admit, that it's not just the family obligations that have imposed a limit on what I've been able to read. I have plenty of other items that have competed for my attention: social media, reading online sites, binging the latest whatever-show-is-currently-playing. You get the idea.

Over the past couple of weeks I have, not really forced, but attempted to create the internal desire to crave reading for pleasure once again. Making an attempt to create a new habit to crack open the book (or e-reader) and take in yet another chapter. It doesn't take long.

I think it's working, too.

I started the final book in The Expanse series on September 1 and finished it on the 13th, 528 pages. I haven't done that in a very long time. I read at least half of the previous book, Tiamat's Wrath, from August 8 through to the 23rd. The book before that, Persepolis Rising....eh, not so quickly as it took from December 2025 until May of 2026. Needless to say, I'm stoked about my current progress. I have this desire to read more and more. It feels really good.

My next read is currently The Mercy of Gods, also by James S. A. Corey. I'm really looking forward to getting into a new universe and seeing just how it grows.