From the beginning I read obsessively, and it almost didn't matter what.

At home he reads obsessively; calls his lover or spouse, Margaret, who is away on a trip, to recite exciting discoveries, such as the second law of thermodynamics, and sleeps fitfully through musical nightmares.

At 29 he began to teach himself to write, reading obsessively and turning out dozens of short stories and several novels on his wife's typewriter and sending them off to magazines.

He found an article about post-traumatic stress that he began to read obsessively: "It is O.K. to be in pain.

She began reading obsessively on death and on suicide, "trying to make sense of the experience, trying to become big enough to let go of my brother.

Murie is very enamored of a book on the subject titled "The Unclad Spirit," which she reads obsessively and encourages Duvett to read as well.

But for the next few months, he plans to spend lots of time at home, where he will continue to read obsessively, speed through crossword puzzles and do most of the things he has always done.

Since both Bairds are fleeing ill-advised flirtations, Cynthia's current fascination with Pinehill's famous poet, Russell Byrd, whom she "has read obsessively, whom she will meet," strikes the reader as ominous.

He begins reading obsessively, reexamining his "black-and-white" view of the world in a more "gray-seeming" way, and holing up in his bedroom in his pajamas.

She has remained a surprisingly marginal figure, read obsessively by some, distrusted - even feared - by many more.