What Has Love For Novels Gotten You Into?

@uzygirl
You r very ok. I know that feeling. I have nearly missed an exam because of a novel. Obviously i did not read for that paper. Fortunately its a course i know very well so i did very well. Almost did not attend a good friend's wedding because i was reading a sidney sheldon book.

   I started reading novels (but nackson & ikebe super in d toilet) from primary skul. my parents bought me 45 pacesetters which i traded 4 m & b in pry 4.
   A lecturer placed me under surveillance when he saw me with "A time to Kill" by John Grisham tot i was a cultist.
   I was very popular truout my skuls because of novels. Any junior who needs me to plead on her bhalf beta bring a novel along.
  nearly got knocked down by a truck while crossin d road  just because  someone was passed by with a penny jordan.
   wrote waec 3tyms because i turned myself to a buk 4 hire walkin bukshop.
  burnt my grandma's kitchen while i went to xchange novel.
  & still gettin bad.

i started with Enid Blyton series at the age of 6, my mum used to encourage me. i became outstanding in English language and even won awards. everyone was happy till i started replacing meals, break- time and sleep with storybooks. the worst was when i started reading Chase books from the age of 12 ( the ones with the near-nude paperbacks). had to do a lot of tearing and cellotaping and apologizing to my novel-lending friends for the "accident".
tried M & B once or twice, but didnt like it, so i stopped.

started wearing glasses from the age of 14, thanx to sunset reading and with candles and weak flashlights.funny enough, i don't regret any of it.

i once bumped into a moving car, thanx to "one midsummer morning by James H Chase.
My mum thereafter banned novels and made my brother a spy. had to bribe him with food and good behaviour before he allowed me read them.

my dad wa my ally tho. he ordered me to finish the Chase novels, bought 5-in-1 novels for me and used to bring them to the hostel behind my mum's back, in sec schl.

i sure had different "bibles" with various covers in church every Sunday and always had my head stuck, reading the chapters of the "bible".
well, it did more good than harm to me.

now im a working class lady, i read e-novels and have received a number of voice memos for it, but hey, nothing can separate me from my Chase, Ludlum, King, Clancy, Puzo, Grisham, Steele, etc etc. is this polygamy or wot?