I got this book out of the library today. It's a Fast Read and is due back in one week; I have the option of paying $1.50 a day if I need more time.
It has more than 300 pages including twenty-five pages of Notes.
The book interests me because I am an introvert, one of the 25 per cent of the population who need time alone to recharge unlike the 75 per cent of extroverts who need to be with other people to recharge and am curious if this is the definition of introversion given in this book. And to see what else is covered. And what "power" is suggested.
I suppose I could read it in a week. But I won't.
There are three other books from the library, non-fiction, in which I am interested. And the fiction one of the moment.
The fiction one I will read, word by word (mostly) from front to back.
The others I will not.
Often enough in life I have risked saying something to someone that sounds bizarre to have them reply that they feel the same. Of course I have also had the opposite reaction enough times to make me vow to never ever again speak so freely. But I do.
Often enough I have said that I sometimes read a non-fiction book by browsing from the back, sort of leafing through the pages and reading a part here, a part there etc. Enough people over the years have agreed they do the same.
Sometimes I read the Notes at the back and that is all I need to read to get what I need to know. Again, nods of agreement. One man told me he also reads the notes in chapters from last to first.
More recently I may google the book and read what other people have to say about it.
This is the trickiest to mention …. but …. again I have had enough nods ..
Often I simply hold the book. My hands start to feel warm. At some point I feel satisfied and put it back on the shelf; do not even need to bring it home.
I do not pretend that I could relate content of book. But something has been gained. I expect soonest the technology will discover what it is that is happening and come up with an app for it so that we can relate content. Or something like that. We live in a fascinating time.