Slow reading

I just went to a friend's blog, as we've messaged back and forth a couple times in recent days. I told him, "Oh, it looks like you're doing xyz, I'll catch up with my reading." It turns out the last time I read him was almost exactly a year ago, when he posted 'A friend just wrote to say I haven't blogged in a long time.'! And that was me! He looks to have become a much more frequent blogger. I wonder if it's avoidance behavior, as he's supposed to be writing a book.

Anyway, I've been catching up with reading like crazy. Inspired perhaps by a book review coming due and an upcoming deadline to vote for a 'book of the year' award. My mother always did say I'm a procrastinator.

BTW: When one is jurying a book award, receives a box of 8 books in the mail, and has only a month to vote, does one actually read all 8 books?