I'm such a wuss

[mysid]

I do this all the time: I'm reading a story, and something emotionally upsetting is about to happen (I know this because I've read the book before, or it's based on a story I already know, or just because the hints have been too obvious), and I just can't keep reading. I put the story aside, go do something else, pick up the story again and read a few more lines, have to put it down again. It can take me hours to read a few pages when I get like this.

Right now I'm rereading a QaF story, A Love That Will Never Grow Old by Bedeviled, and I'm up to the part in which Justin tells Brian that he's seeing someone else. I know that they'll get back together and that it will all work out in the end--I did mention that I'm rereading, right?--but I still can't get through it in one go. I'm here typing this to procrastinate before I dive back into the heartache.

Aggh--what a wuss. (Somebody please tell me I'm not the only one. Please?)
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Comments

[heartofoshun.livejournal.com]

I do that all the time! OMG. I was doing it in fact, when I decided I had to take one of those breaks and opened up my LJ to take a look. I am reading Ellen Kushner's Swordspoint (have you read that--it's great so far--has a brilliant m/m pairing at the center of it). I reached a point when the plot is fraught with foreboding of something very bad that seems inevitable.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

No, haven't read it yet, but you aren't the first person to recommend it to me. I guess I should really seek it out and read it soon.

And that's too funny that you were doing the same thing when you read this!

[rissabby.livejournal.com]

I do that a bit. Mostly I have to get up and pace. Sometimes I get tea and toast to fortify myself. If it's something scary and I'm reading at night, I have to put the story away and wait for daylight.
Unfortunately, I have the same reaction to paying my utility bills.

[mysid.livejournal.com]

I do the getting up and pacing thing too--especially if it's a book. If I'm reading something online, I often just switch to another screen.

My condolences on the utility bills; they can be trying, can't they?