Musing Mondays (3): Reading Habits

Weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

Musing Mondays asks you to muse about one of the following each week…

• Describe one of your reading habits. 
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s). 
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! 
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it. 
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us! 
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

For some ungodly reason, I can't read in complete silence.

The TV needs to be on, or music needs to be playing, or people need to be talking.

I don't know how much of that comes from having ADD, that I find it easier to concentrate on reading when I have other stuff available to distract me whenever I want. I'm a master at zoning everything out and focusing just on the story, as long as I have options to take me away from reading if I want to. Am I making sense?

If reading is the only thing I have to distract myself or to do, then I won't be able to concentrate long enough to read something. Now, if I have other distractions, whenever I take the time to sit down and read it's like I'm making the choice to ignore everything else and focus only on the book I'm carrying. 

After that, everything is rainbows and butterflies and puppies because I completely forget about anything else but the characters and whatever it is they're going through. :D