Wondering why ???

I am kind of having a perfect weekend. Perfect weekend for me means, getting to do things which I love to do.

It includes a bit of television, whole lot of reading, time to spend with myself all alone, and a bit of blogging just to tingle some thought process in my mind, (Idle mind is devils workshop, so why let it idle??? :P)

Here I am reading 3 awesome books, simultaneously, trying to finish them as soon as possible.. I am not reading one book to completion at a time, coz I am finding it difficult, I am rather juggling between these three books at the same time, reading few pages from one book for sometime and the other and other.

If you ask me which are those three books ... They are:
> Business Maharajas
> ********************************* [Name removed due to some reasons]
> Greatness Guide 2 by Robin Sharma.

Time and again I try to analyze and re-analyze my reading pattern. I am trying to find a defect in the way I read a book so that I can correct myself, but its still elusive.

There are some books which I can finish within 3 hrs, the writing is so good, I just cruise through the book in no time.

There are some books which I start reading but 3/4 through the book, I find that, this book is not for me and totally abandon it. (Though these are very small in number, may be 1 in every 15 books I read, its still a bad sign of losing interest easily or bad selection.)

There are some books which I reading completely but not at a single stretch. ( I have no regrets about that. )

Now I am wondering why my reading speed cannot be same across all the books I read? I am still trying to find an answer to this particular question.

But I did find one clue today while I was reading the book The Greatness Guide 2. In 3 hrs of continuous reading I could only cover 68 pages (The page content was not too much though) . You may be wondering why. But I have an answer. The book is so good that, I ended up thinking and thinking. Instead of reading the book to completion, at the end of each chapter I ended up doing so called reverse engineering. I started wondering whether " Have I been in such a situation? Have I done this before". That reverse engineering went to that extent, that, I started pondering over my childhood days, days as a 4 year old may be....

After all, this is what I expect from a book, a lot to think about, a lot to ponder over and above all a lot to learn and improve upon.

At the end of this post, all I have to say is, there is no pros and cons of reading a book quickly within no time. I feel reading it slowly has its own say.

For example,

>How do you feel when you find yourself in Wonderland amidst Alice, while reading Alice in Wonderland.
>How do you feel when you recollect those precious moments in time that you have spent with loved ones while reading a book from Sudha Murthy.
>How do you feel to be in the jungle while reading the Jungle Book.
>How do you feel when you figure out the lessons learnt from mistakes you made previously, while reading a book by Robin Sharma.
>And not to forget, How do I feel, when I re-read the post I put up few months ago, about being @ Bandipur forest @ 2 am in the morning!!!!!

Just priceless. Ain't the feeling just beyond my dictionary of words of description... It is.. May be I am losing the time over here, just to feel the feeling, instead of running through the pages. ("Feel the feeling", Phrase courtesy - Arvind.)

Thats what reading some books give me or do to me.

So now its time for " Hello Kaun Pehchan Kaun " on Star One and then back to Robin's book. I have some more moments to relive... Yippy ... What a weekend...

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Cheers


PS: Sorry guys the post was meant to be something and it ended up being something, coz in midway I just got a whole new idea, courtesy the super books I am reading, couldn't resist putting it here, else I may forget. So now the post is like inconclusive.

PPS: And regarding my reading pattern. Who cares or may be some other time , I am enjoying the book wholly, reading it as slowly as I can, re-reading the same thing again and again and pondering over those golden moments.....

PPPS: May be, that is why I have read the book by Robin Sharma, 10 times and I will sure read it again and again may be in multiples of 10, just to ponder over those golden moments, again and again, involving, the wonderful people and those mistakes which I have made, who / which have helped me, to be myself and tune myself into, what I am today. Miss you guys..