I am a slow reader, which may have to do with being too cheap to take the Evelyn Wood speed-reading course years ago or because I am so distractible or, perhaps, a combination of both. How about those distractions? They are the ones that are stimulated by good reading, the ones that take us away from the text to other stuff.More and more, I seem to be reading for the distractions, the points of identification with characters whose lives I inhabit so completely (if it is a good read) that I forget myself.According to Eula …