Have you ever missed your night sleep for a book

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Absolutely! It happened more when I was a kid though. When a new Harry Potter book was released, for example, I'd stay up all night devouring every word. Actually, now that I think of it, when the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was released a year or two ago, I did the same thing! I felt just like a kid again!
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I remember staying up all night to read Hunger Games and then doing it again two nights later with Catching Fire!
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Camille Turner wrote: 16 Mar 2018, 12:18 Absolutely! It happened more when I was a kid though. When a new Harry Potter book was released, for example, I'd stay up all night devouring every word. Actually, now that I think of it, when the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was released a year or two ago, I did the same thing! I felt just like a kid again!
I was in my early twenties and our local bookstore would have midnight release parties. So my boyfriend (now husband) and I would stay up the rest of the night reading our brand new books. Harry Potter owes me a lot of sleep, actually!
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I have sacrificed many a night to a good book! Sometimes I'm not even aware of how late it is until I finish the book! Other times I willingly sacrifice the night, lol. Sometimes it's just not possible to put a book down!
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Haute_Coffee wrote: 17 Mar 2018, 21:00
Camille Turner wrote: 16 Mar 2018, 12:18 Absolutely! It happened more when I was a kid though. When a new Harry Potter book was released, for example, I'd stay up all night devouring every word. Actually, now that I think of it, when the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was released a year or two ago, I did the same thing! I felt just like a kid again!
I was in my early twenties and our local bookstore would have midnight release parties. So my boyfriend (now husband) and I would stay up the rest of the night reading our brand new books. Harry Potter owes me a lot of sleep, actually!

Oh my gosh, midnight Harry Potter release parties were the best! My mom used to take me. Great memories! Thanks for sharing. :)
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I try to finish reading chapters, but sometimes I get too tired. If I'm reading a physical book I will judge by how many pages I have left and if I'm super into it I will read until I am finished.
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With a great book, this is easy to do. You can become so engrossed in a book and time slips away from you. Sometimes I realize that the hour is getting late but I can't put the book down. I have even got to the point where I realize the lateness of the hour and know that I have to get to sleep and mentally tell my self, I will stop at the next chapter and finish in the morning, only to find that the end of that chapter is a kind of cliffhanger and you just can't help but go to the next chapter, then the next.
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Camille Turner wrote: 16 Mar 2018, 12:18 Absolutely! It happened more when I was a kid though. When a new Harry Potter book was released, for example, I'd stay up all night devouring every word. Actually, now that I think of it, when the play "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" was released a year or two ago, I did the same thing! I felt just like a kid again!
Exactly, things we do as kids though. It's fun getting the kid feeling once in a whille.
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Haute_Coffee wrote: 17 Mar 2018, 20:57 I remember staying up all night to read Hunger Games and then doing it again two nights later with Catching Fire!
I can relate.
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toribyers13 wrote: 18 Mar 2018, 03:50 I have sacrificed many a night to a good book! Sometimes I'm not even aware of how late it is until I finish the book! Other times I willingly sacrifice the night, lol. Sometimes it's just not possible to put a book down!
lol, I can relate. Sometimes putting the book down is like suicidal, I won't have a peaceful sleep without knowing how it all ended.
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bootsie0126+ wrote: 20 Mar 2018, 00:46 With a great book, this is easy to do. You can become so engrossed in a book and time slips away from you. Sometimes I realize that the hour is getting late but I can't put the book down. I have even got to the point where I realize the lateness of the hour and know that I have to get to sleep and mentally tell my self, I will stop at the next chapter and finish in the morning, only to find that the end of that chapter is a kind of cliffhanger and you just can't help but go to the next chapter, then the next.
Yea, that's the beauty of a great book, we just can't put it down until we are done
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Yes i have had. I wanted so bad to finish the Hubrr games series in an ebook form i missed lots of sleep then. But at times as well if i need to sleep i just read a book to help me catch a wink.
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I am usually pretty good at forcing myself to put the book down. However, sometimes I do stay up to read. I think the latest I ever stayed up was midnight. If I stay up past that I just fall asleep XD
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I have done this many times. I love reading and it is my escape from reality. I do find that if I get really drawn in to the books setting or become emotionally involved in the characters, I have to find out what is happening. This really happened to me when I was reading Vampire Academy. This is my all time favorite book series and I struggled a lot to put them down. This was the series that I would be waiting for the next book to come out and had to read it the second it got in my hand.
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When twilight came out, I spent a whole school night reading it. I only put the book down at 5 when I was meant to wake up and prepare for school. I was a wreck the entire day because of my lack of sleep
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