A rant on book chapter blogging

*sigh* How do I put this... Well, this "journaling" or "blogging" for every chapter of our chosen book is basically de-motivating me from even reading it. It's almost as if when I know I have to do something related to the book's content, it prevents me from concentrating on the story and plot, and takes all the entertainment value out of the story.

Now a response someone (*cough*Mr. Wilcox*cough*) might give would be "You reflected on the Truman Show just fine, how is this any different?" For one thing, that gave specific topics that we could concentrate on. In this, you need to FIND them. But it's that search that is interfering with the story reading process. Wasn't a main reason for this was to get us to read more? If not, then I must be thinking of something else...

Now it's very possible that I'm only having difficulty because of my issues with "reading between the lines." As far as I know, I was never good at reading between the lines, and even today I take things very literally. This could very well be hindering my ability to locate those so-called "bigger issues" that are possibly portrayed within the story.

Also I'm not one to leave notes or to "highlight" things in books. I'm not really sure why, but I just don't really like doing that. Maybe I'm too involved in the reading? Who knows.

So until I can figure out some way to read my book without the stress of blogging on it, I'm probably going to have to put that on hold. I WANT to read the book, but not like this, it completely ruins the experience. Though, I may just say "screw it" and just read the book without blogging on it anyway.