Skimming Persuasion?

Anybody besides me skim over big parts of novels. Even famous novels? Even really, really good novels can cause me impatience(what skimming actually is a response to). Literally literal impatience with literature. If the story is so good, but to some extent, maudlin, I might zoom ahead. Recently read Persuasion by Jane Austen. Quite, quite, quite fine work. But I found myself wanting very badly, impatiently to see Capt. Wentworth show up again, and Wentworth is an easy name for the eye to pick up, so I skimmed the 2nd half of the book. I just wanted him and Anne together so bad, I couldn't stand it. And maybe skimming is entirely fine, since the author created such a gripping story in the first place and the reader is so excited they can't control how he(me) reacts😁