Entertainment...halfway?

Some people ask me why I read books so fast. It's not because I'm a fast reader; it's the same reason I don't watch a movie halfway through, take a nap then finish the movie when I wake up. Who wants to be entertained halfway? Either that person is crazy or they have "crazy" self-control to be able to put down a good book. I don't believe I manifest either attribute of being crazy or having crazy self-control very well although my wife would say I've been blessed with the first in plentiful amounts.
I remember hiding beneath my blankets with a flashlight reading Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series when I was in sixth and seventh grade. (I have never before nor since had grades as low as my seventh grade year when I read those books. I just wish I could blame my D+ in shop class on those books!)
Now back to the point: don't let your husband or wife tell you you are crazy for wanting to read a book all the way through. If they tell you you are neglecting the children and the relationship will not last past the summer if you don't stop reading right this very second,you better think twice about how good the book is. Family and relationships will always beat the books. We're not gamers. We know when to let go of our passion for reading in order to save a marriage going to the south pole. Gamers definitely think differently in my opinion. No offense to you gamers who are reading this...which I know there are none because why would you read a blog when you could be gaming? Makes no sense.
Speaking of marriages going to the south pole, my parents and their marriage are going to the south pole this February. I don't mean they are getting divorced...on the contrary, they have a wonderful marriage but my dad was involved in an iMax film about Shackleton, one of the great south pole explorers and they are having a ten year reunion by taking a boat and their wives to Antarctica to reminisce the good ol' days. Sorry mom, not my idea of a romantic getaway...but you've survived this long with dad "the caveman" I think a week in the Antarctic will give you some good perspective about how far you two have come.