How often do you find yourself enjoying a great book, turning the pages dying to know what happens next, only to look up and see it is 2am. Do you stop reading? Wait until the end of the chapter and put it away? Or are you like me.
You start to bargain with yourself… half an hour more. You should be able to at least find out what happens when she sees what he did.
At 2:45… they are kissing and making up… you can’t stop there! You will just finish the chapter. You don’t wear much makeup and that is what red lights are for!
3:10 rolls around… okay so the clothes really, really don’t have to be ironed.
3:37… you are so close to the end. And hey you look great in a ponytail.
4:20… the book would be done by now but the grovel – was the best – it called for a few rereads. Or that could be your mind blurring pages due to lack of sleep.
5:00… you jump as the alarm goes off. Slam it off to finish the last few pages.
And then close the book with a happy sigh and figure out how the hell you are going to stay awake to get to work, learn how to sleep with your eyes open and make it home. Oddly enough I very rarely regret those books. Of course I am something of an insomniac and tend to be awake at odd times and often am awake a day or so in a row.
I hate to stop a good book. And can bargain with myself for all sorts of things to give myself a few more minutes. Just to get to the next page. Just to see what happens next. Only to get to where they find each other again or….
So what was the last book to keep you up all night reading? What was the worst bargain you ever made with yourself for more time. Did you regret? Did you learn your lesson? Or are you like me, finding yourself doing it a couple of nights later?
Those kind of books don’t come along all that often to me anymore, but . . . it did happen two or three nights ago with Sugar Baby by Lisa Kleypas. I was totally caught up in the story. The style reminded me a little of a mix between After the Night by Linda Howard and a couple of Judith McNaught’s and Susan Elizabeth Phillips’s books combined. It was defintely worth the pained exhaustion I felt the next day after having had only a couple hours of sleep. But then I woke up to realize it was daylight savings- and I had lost another hour!
oops. I meant Sugar Daddy. I guess my brain is still trying to catch up from the other night.
Oh, I do that too. It has been a while though. I cannot remember the last time off hand.
Book that kept me ujp all night recently:
Kate Walker’s Sicilian Husband, Blackmailed Bride soon to be released.
Games of Command by Linnea Sinclair
Nuff said 😉
Oh, and I did read a bunch of short ebooks overnight a while back. That was during my were/shifter binge. Does that count? Hehehe.
Beau Crusoe by Carla Kelly. I am a confirmed early-to-bed person, even on the weekends. I picked up the book in the afternoon, starting reading in bed at 10:30 or so, finished at 2 am. Not that late for the rest of you, I know, but it made me groggy the whole next day. And it was soooo worth it.
OMG the deals I’ve made over the years! I’ve taken potty breaks and gotten my clothes ready for work the next day so I don’t have to stop reading. NATURAL BORN CHARMER by SEP was my last one. Although like you I’m a bit of an incomniac so being up until 2-3 a.m. reading is not unheard of.
That’s me to a T! Everything you said, I do it all. I’m an insomniac, too, but I’ll push myself to finish even when I’m tired. I did that last night with Roxanne St. Clair’s newest Bullet Catchers book.
Good times.
THE LILY BRAND by Sandra Schwab….kept me up until 4:30am the day I started it and I couldn’t find it in me to put it down and go to bed until I saw how it ended. 🙂
I’m pretty much always like this unless the book really sucks or I’m so tired I fall asleep reading. After my first pregnancy, I was sleep deprived, not just because of the baby but because I’d read when the baby went to bed…and kept reading until he woke up again! Those were some very cranky months.
I think my last one was BAD GIRL by Michele Jaffe. Was up ’til 5, reading that one.
But I called it “research”. I was totally working.