I also have an issue with noise distraction. The tv, radio, music get in the way of me taking in what I am reading. Strangely the quietest place I have found is our local church. The only thing is that the pews are not very comfortable….🙄

Modern life provides endless distractions and can leave us feeling that we are doing something wrong as there are not enough hours in a day to do what we ‘like’. Reading for leisure is such a pleasure (I didn’t mean it to come out like that but….). Allocate half an hour or so every day and stick to it. And enjoy!

There is nothing wrong with skipping or skimming, it’s just that I can’t do it as I feel I will miss something important in the plot. When younger I wondered how people could read so quickly. I thought that I must be such a slow reader. It didn’t make me read any differently though. Sometimes I might not be enjoying a book, but as I have invested the time and feel the need to see it through. I feel I should respect the author and 99 times out of 100 I end up getting something out of the book.

This type of book needs a victim and women are an easy stereotypical victim of a lazy (or perhaps clever) author, who wants to make money using titillation from the books target audience. I am not sure of the size of the audience, but guess that it is sufficiently large to turn a good profit.

No I don’t, but I might now following an afternoon at a literary festival where I listened to Alistair McCall Smith, an author that I had written off without reading his books. It turned out that he is hugely entertaining and if I had researched him, I might have given him a chance. How many other authors have I ignored because I have prejudged with incorrect assumptions?