my return trip to Jozi, using gmail on my Nokia 6234 to email my blog.
It's been a whirlwind two-day business trip.
On my flight down on Sunday evening, I was standing in line waiting to
board - after trekking to a completely different gate on a completely
different floor at the last moment - reading Peter F Hamilton's Judas
Unchained, so I had the 1235 page book in my hand when I finally
boarded the plane.
There was a queue behind me and a queue in front of me.
'You're definitely not 40, are you?' says the flight attendant to me.
'Huh?'
All I can think of is that we're already delayed and there's a whole
lot of people behind me and just what is this guy smoking...
'But you'll surely be 42 by the time you finish that book!'
[Currently on page 248, about to start reading again now.]
4 comments:
hey bookwork, any advice for a reading addict who as of late can't get past 2 pages without mind wandering...???
its true - attention is the scarest commodity in the info age!
book worm :)
its late!
I think the problem is the size of PC screens, the Internet and multitasking... I have vague memories of reading something along those lines for linguistics back at varsity .
And, of course, TV...
Oh, and who says I remember what I read? That's why I started this blog, so I can record my readings.
I can't remember when I read the first book, Pandora's Star. I've been reading Judas Unchained and frantically trying to recall the characters and plot and twists from Pandora's Star.
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