Skimming Persuasion?

May 24

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😁

Joe Smolen

Joe C. Smolen, AKA L.W. Smolen is an Oregon Coast writer of insufficiently exaggerated notoriety. Never having been arrested, he lives with his wife Sherrie and the ghost of their black, Standard Poodle Rico Suave in a really pretty good, Prairie Style house they built themselves. Since the Literary Magazine Fleas on the Dog of Kitchener, Ontario has permanently stopped accepting submissions, in order to read L.W. Smolen’s 2021 short fiction, A Real Guy, you are referred to joecsmolen.com. Some of L.W’s other, subsequent short fictions are archived at Olive Tree Review, Ginosko, Cardinal Sins Journal, Wrath Bearing Tree, Wilderness House and etc. Kirkus reviews once interpreted his work favorably.

https://joecsmolen.com

Skimming Persuasion?

I love this word, Void.

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