While I’d like to think that the reason my books in my book bag… er purse don’t change very often is because of the limited time I have to read. The startup company, the children (well, soon to be children), and everything takes its toll on my time.

But I should just admit the truth… I’m really just a slow reader. While friends whiz through novels in a single evening, I’m laboriously reading a single chapter. I’ve taken speed reading courses, but I don’t like it. I enjoy reading, and I guess that while I wish I could read more, I enjoy reading slow.

So I do what any other slow reader out there would do … I read more complicated books.

I haven’t read a novel for years. Not because I don’t like novels, but because I can’t justify spending all that time just on a novel when I could have been wading through a college textbook on combinatorics … or better yet, catching up on the latest geeky technical fetish.

I guess one advantage is that I don’t have to modify the book listing on my web site that often.

Hey, look on the bright side whenever you can.