![]() Things have to grab me fast to hold my attention-the blurb and the first page for a start. So these days I tend to binge read over a couple of days between edits, writing, and real life stuff. That damn pesky 1-Click and all the legitimate freebies I see on Facebook and Twitter are just too hard to resist. In the last year, several books have gone onto my Did Not Finish shelf on Goodreads, because I don't want to spend time on a book I'm not enjoying when there are currently 244 titles waiting on my Kindle. I found myself becoming more demanding in what I read. Then once I started writing again back in 2009, not only did my reading time lessen, but my inclination. Once the kids arrived, reading became more of a luxury. ![]() Or once I was older and married with a home of my own and could spend summer weekends just lying in the garden to read, or stretched out on the sofa. ![]() I'd read pretty much anything then, although fantasy and scifi were my main genres. Back in the days when I didn't have to work, didn't have kids, when I could just disappear into the fields behind my home and find a warm, sunny corner to read without interruption. ![]() ![]() Once upon a time, I used to spend whole days devouring books. Hello, I'm Pippa Jay, author of scifi and the supernatural. ![]()
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