Reading Reps.

Hit the gym for two weeks, back all chiseled.

Elbows unique, now meet the New me.

—Ghostface Killah, “Buck 50”

So, I think I’ve been going about this reading thing in a way that tends to put up a locked door in front, of you. Go read ten pages of this a day. Read thirty pages. Fuck it, read the whole of “The Dead” in one sitting, Edgar Allen told you to.

I think the best way, or a better way, to get into reading more is to use more of a workout approach. Reading is more labor-intensive in terms of sitting down and reading your books than going to the gym is. I went to the gym, the only day I went to it on my current, month-plus-old membership, and put on DragonForce and ran my heart out after playing with the machine. That was easy.

Sitting down to read The Last Wish with the sounds around you, Creeping in. That is hard.