I need BA, according to my husband

Okay, so what is BA you ask? It is books annonymous. Let me explain. I have never been on drugs and even taking something a little stronger than advil makes me loopy so I just don't know what an addiction feels like in that sense but I am addicted to one thing, books. I stopped reading for a short time after getting married. I use to read at night before I went to bed. But I wanted to spend that time with my husband. Soon I was having sleepless nights and tossing and turner. I discovered it was withdrawals from reading at night. It helps me relax and focus my mind so I can sleep. So I took up reading again. I read usually around half an hour before I shut off the light. But I have a problem. Sometimes with a new book I get addicted. That is what happened to me this weekend. That is why I have only now blogged after reading 2 full books in 5 days time. Plus part of an online book.

I will try to explain further. It all started a few months ago. I was looking for new books to read since I had finished all the Harry Potters and all the Robert Jordans and was debating what I wanted to read next. My children's teenage babysitter and I went on a walk one day (I use to be her YW leader and her mom was the Primary President that I was counselor too so I knew her well.) She's very into sci-fi things and I was talking to her about that. She was the first to tell me about the Twilight series although I had heard it mentioned on my HS website. I had just started into Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series and was rereading the Wheel of Time series. I decided to check into the Twilight series sometime in the future. About a month ago I ordered some books on Amazon and saw the first two books of the Twilight series for a good price so ordered them as well. They came and I put them on my nightstand to start in the future. I read the two Brandon Sanderson books (the second Mistborn and the first Alcatraz) really quickly (yes, I was addicted to them too) and then started back in the Robert Jordan book, the 7th one. I finished that one last week. So I picked up the Twilight book and couldn't put it down. After 2 days I had finished it. I felt like I was starting to have withdrawals. I had told myself that I would read the 2nd one after I finished the 8th Robert Jordan book (now remember this is my second time through the Robert Jordan books so I wasn't soaking them in like I usually do with a new book.) I thought about the Twilight book all the time. I felt like I was in a dream state. I wanted to know what happened next.

I looked up the author online because I wanted to see how many are in the series. (I just ordered the 3rd and it should be here sometime next week or the next and then I will order the 4th with my next order around the middle of October. Mistborn 3 is coming out and so is Alcatraz 2 in the middle of October.) I saw that there was a fifth one and clicked on that link Midnight Sun but disappointingly I learned that it had been leaked on the internet and she was putting it on hold indefinitely ( I hope someday she does finish it) and there was a link for a partial draft, which I immediately started reading.

After talking to my husband about the symptoms I was having he told me to just read the 2nd book (and that I needed BA.) So as soon as I got home Monday I did and I read almost 300 pages that night.

So I couldn't just read all day. I had to clean, do laundry, feed the kids but every second I had free I read. I read while my kids watched their shows, during commercials of shows I wanted to watch, to my son when I put him down for a nap, and yes even during bathroom breaks. I do have a conflict of timing though because the fair is next week and I have to enter stuff Friday or Saturday so I have been trying to get all my small projects done. But last night I thankfully finished the 2nd book and luckily I won't get the third for awhile so I can finish my projects the rest of the week. I am almost finished with the partial draft of the other one too but since I get headaches reading a computer screen too long I have been reading those in short sections.

Now I don't know how addicts to drugs and alcohol feel but I think I can understand the feeling of thinking you need something so bad that it's hard to get enough of it.