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One thing that I dream of doing, is reading till I get sick. From a young age reading was something I did when the information between covers was purely fictional. I remember buying novels such as Animorphs and Goosebumps to quench my thirst for surreal adventures. During secondary school my friend introduced me to the Artemis Fowl series which I got hooked on. The series entailed an adolescent genius discovering and protecting a world under the earth's surface, which housed everything from pixies to trolls. Not to mention this world was eons advanced in technology than the human world. The boy also had a bodyguard called Butler, yes butler. Up to a couple years ago I bought the most recent book in the series after stumbling upon it in a store. In secondary school, literature was compulsory and we read books such as Shane and To Kill a Mockingbird, which I enjoyed reading but didn't enjoy dissecting it over and over to bring out underlying themes etc. From there I moved on to Dan Brown's The Da Vinci code, Angels and Demons, Digital Fortress and a yet to be read Deception Point. Somehow I need to transfer the energy I possess reading fictional novels and transfer it to the non fictional aspect of reading. I would read an architectural magazine, lets say Metropolis and it would hold me for a while before I do something else and get back to it, but I can't sit for an hour and read something non fictional. I just fall asleep or get the urge to do something other than reading. I do understand the importance of reading especially in my field that requires me to retain vast amounts of information to meld with my ideas, but the act of reading eludes me for now. I fight with myself daily on the time I waste where I could be reading. To visually stimulate my absent reading appetite I pilled all the books and magazines I want to read on my bed and put an 'IN' tag in front of them and to the right I have an 'OUT' tag, just like in an office environment where work comes to you and you need to process it and put it in the outbox. Thats my motivation I guess, but I need to get over this hurdle because the next semester is coming up and I don't want to be playing catchup when I could be progressing forwardly.