Reading books

 Hi there

Occasionally, when I'm reading a novel, I reach a passage that is so mind-blowing with a plot revelation, action, or clue that I immediately drop this hot potato of a book, gaze at the ceiling as if anticipating the second coming, and pray that my heart-racing palpitations will slow down before I have a full-blown attack. 

My breathing is shallow, my mind is skittering around with all kinds of scenarios that could fit in with the page I was just reading. Has she truly betrayed him?  Is there going to be another murder?  Is the next door neighbour involved (no, no, he's too nice for murder;  he owns a cat!).  

Is she really her husband's long-lost sister (oh, my...).  Was it actually the postie who put that  bomb in her letterbox?. - I mean, he's serving a life sentence for the deed, but what if he's innocent.....?

After a few minutes, when my mind is not so befuddled with the enormity of the book's revelation and my heart is not racing, I go back to reading.

I often wonder if other readers and reviewers have the same intense reactions to books, as I do?

Lots of reviewers declare that a book is too exciting to put down.  I differ; it's the other way around.  Sometimes a book is so exciting, it just has to be put down (but not in a derogatory way!)...