Reading 5 years of books in too short a time...

I've always been a reader. I think my poor eyesight is in direct correlation to my reading late into the night as a pre-teen. I know it's an old wives tale that reading in the dark will make you blind, but I think I'm the reality to that tale. As a teen, I read a lot of fiction. The novels I read were mostly adventure fantasy (Robin McKinley, Garth Nix, Alexander Lloyd, Tamara Pierce) and I loved it. There wasn't too much love storyline as far as I remember, but lots of danger and plenty of imagination. Also, now that I think about it, many, if not the majority, of the books I read had a very intelligent female heroine and protagonist.

Anyway, I loved reading.

I continued to love reading throughout high school and into college. I read and read and read my way through mostly classics. Then I came to graduate school, and stopped.

Stopped entirely.

I started reading again, maybe 2 years ago, but that was slowly and maybe only 2 books a year. In the last 10 months, it has picked up tremendously. With a fury, I have read more books in the last 10 months then I have in the last 5 years combined (24 books, actually). I hope nothing is wrong with me. I'm also hoping that with some sort of wisdom I will get back my regular reading pace (somewhere between stopped and where I am now) so as not to become a book-glutton.

And no, lest you think I've become less of a scientist than I've been in the past - a good 25% of the books are science related (not required reading though) and mostly read between the hours of 9 pm and 1 am and here and there on commutes to and from lab.