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I Have A Problem

I have a problem. I love to read books, but that’s not my problem. Not just read books but, savor them, run their words over my mental palette, and slowly digest the meaning and the memory suggested by the author. But I have a problem. I sometime stop reading a book for days and read another book or two, and all the while, reflecting on and telepathically (as Stephen King suggests in his book On Writing ) communicate with the author and his characters. But I have a problem. I go back to the book I stopped reading and sometimes pick up where I left off or start over or go back a few pages. My problem is I don’t want the book to end . Sometimes I can’t stop reading and find myself too near the end of the book but then, I stop.     By CBS Television via Wikimedia Commons This happened to me during the past few days. I started re-reading Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes on Tuesday. It is about a man with mental retardation that is chosen to undergo an operation to