Hello, my name is Sarah and it's been 2 hours since I read a book!

Welcome to your first ORA (Obsessive Readers Anon.) Meeting! Let me start with an introduction:

Hello, My name is Sarah and it's been 2 hours since I read a book!

I've been obsessively reading since I was 3. It really went downhill for me when I won the school-wide Read-A-Thon in Third Grade. The obsession to win, and read 300 books in a month got the best of me and I haven't looked back since!

I start a book innocently enough . . . reading the first chapter at the library, while waiting for my children to find their books. As I sit on the couch I think, Oh, this book is delicious and I can savor it over the next few weeks . . . no headaches attached!

But then, it turns ugly. I read on the way home, AT THE STOP LIGHTS, with people honking and yelling in the cars behind me! People can be so ugly and hard-hearted to us readers! Then, I prop the book up, while I cook dinner (sometimes I sweet talk my 9-year-old genius child into cooking, so I can read in my room), and then, when 7:30pm comes . . . my dear husband reads scriptures and prays with the kids and then tucks them in, while I sit in the bath and read.

And then the book is finished, and I've had to add 10 gallons of hot water, over the next 6 hours, while I prune and read.

And it's 2am.

And I can't function the next morning, and Damian knows why, so he gets up quietly (How many of you have had book HANGOVERS?) and gets the kids off to school.

And my 4-year-old plays quietly because he knows Mommy is too tired to play and has a headache, because she read a book all night.

This is not healthy. And I know it. And I have to gain some control over the books that are taking over my life. If you can understand the obsession of reading, or if you have had book hangovers, please, be my support group. Let me know I'm not the only crazy one!