And to learn more, read "Craving an Ice-Cream Fix".
Among the book's side effects is that it sends you back to the source material; as you're reading, you find yourself craving Cohen's music in the background.
The many viewpoints of her books inhibit the "identification" with a single figure that reading-groups crave: "My method of looking at everybody, I suspect, makes it harder for anyone to find that".
I read because I love reading, not because I crave the reward of being stretched.
The other day we received a request from a reader for a recommendation of a good literary biography — with two caveats: I've been craving to read a biography lately (normally my tastes run to fiction).
It ends in a chilly new atmosphere of open-plan offices and hard-headed sales conferences, where backlists are pulped, the marketers make decisions on what we are allowed to read and publishers crave a 'synergistic' alliance with movie studios or television networks.
We met students who devoured every word of the tech blogs we all read, and still craved someone with first-hand knowledge, to warn them away from dead ends or confirm their intuitions.
From this new delight ("there are no days more full in childhood than those days that are not lived at all, the days lost in a book"), it's a short, albeit difficult, step to St Patrick's Training College, where the pleasure in reading mutates into a craving to write.
The frequency of zoning out more than doubled in reading experiments involving smokers who craved a cigarette and in people who were given a vodka cocktail before taking on "War and Peace".
The subcategories describing Queensberry's personality in her book's index read: "courageous, combative and adventurous"; "craving for love"; "crusading urge, outspoken, unconventional"; "high-spirited and competitive"; "kind, generous and chivalrous"; "truthful and honourable"; "unhappy and dissatisfied"; "volatile temper".
