Engine Summer

I'm sure the way I read has changed, especially as I've come to write more, but I'd be hard pressed to say what sort of a reader I am, because it doesn't seem to match anything I hear described, though it has bits of lots of them. Maybe kinetic? I notice pacing--whether things are slow, or static, or fast paced. Sometimes I sense patterns or rhythms. But that's when I'm noticing how a work is put together ... and I seem to make a distinction between noticing how a story is put together and paying attention to the story events, whereas it seems as if you don't, which makes me very impressed with your integration--I mean, that **all** your impressions of a work can come together, and you can have this sort of gestalt impression. That's very cool.