Hi Bethanne, I just want to say thanks for answering my question the other day regarding how fast you can read a book. You can read a 300-page novel in 3-4 hours! All I can say is Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That is your gift from God. Hey Bethanne how about a post asking your readers how fast they can read a book? Sadly it takes me a week to finish a 300-page novel.

I read 8 books a week, sometimes more. A friend once told me I should give a writer more than 3 -5 hours for a novel, as it had taken the writer much longer to write it. Sory. Marshall McLuhan suggested reading only the right hand page -- you can go back if you missed something important on the left hand page. I don't do that, I skim the middle and skip boring descriptions.

If you "skim the middle" and skip parts, you're not really reading the book, so you can't really say you read 8 books a week. It's more like you look at 8 books a week. I would like to read faster myself, but not if it means skipping parts and missing out on the prose itself. Why read at all in that case?