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I have a bit of a problem sometimes when I read, I just can't slow down – I race through books.
His predecessor, George W. Bush, in contrast, tended to race through books in competitions with Karl Rove (who recently boasted that he beat the president by reading 110 books to Mr. Bush's 95 in 2006), or passionately embrace an author's thesis as an idée fixe.
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A caregiver arranges a Bluetooth microphone on his head, and he dictates e-mail and races through books by calling out, "Page down," when he reaches the bottom of a screen.
Pushing myself to read more and more books can lead to undesirable consequences -- dismissing longer or more difficult books as too much of a time investment, racing through books that would yield more if I read them more slowly.
The story is so intense and the adventure so compelling that readers will race through the book and then begrudge the ending coming so quickly.
In my office I tend to be racing through short books — Russell Hoban's "Turtle Diary" and Edward St. Aubyn's Melrose books and Lydia Millet's "Magnificence" just now, while at the bedside table and on trains and airplanes I'm grinding away at monsters over a period of months, if not years: Robert Musil's "Man Without Qualities" and Karl Ove Knausgaard's "My Struggle".
The story is really interesting and I raced through every book.
These readers can race through at least a book a day, gulping down stories about unexpected pregnancies, arrogant millionaires and bad boys in need of taming.
If you're waiting for a delayed flight or layover, just think about how much boredom you'll have to endure on that long flight if you race through the film and book you brought along before you even step onto the plane.
Obasogie's first book, Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind Stanford University Presss) was awarded the Herbert Jacob Book Prize by the Law and Society Association.
The book's enterprising centerpiece, "The Homesteader," also examines race, through the fascinating story of the (real-life) black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux.
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