Fiction

Normally, I can get through a book of this length in 2-3 days. But not this one. Sure, difficult literature or boring/silly subject matter often makes me sleepy and that always prolongs my reading time (hello, Moby Dick); however, this is neither difficult nor boring. At all.

Yet I find myself falling asleep when I read it, even when I'm not tired. I love the writing, I love the narrative... So why the sleepiness? I finally realized that the book is so introspective and the pace is so measured and leisurely that it's soothing and tranquil, and that lulls me right to sleep.

I'm now reading a few pages of Dean Koontz's Darkness Under the Sun if I start nodding off. My husband, a big Koontz fan, tells me that his work will keep me awake. I have a feeling he'll wind up right. I'm only a couple of chapters in, and I'm already getting creeped out. But if it keeps me awake...