Worried

I worry about myself and my ability to remember things.  I have always had a bad memory, made worse by the fact that my brain spent a few years floating around in chemo.  I love reading, obviously.  But sometimes it feels like I'm barely retaining what I read.  I don't know if this is a problem particular to me, or a problem shared by other voracious readers.  I'm especially flummoxed by the current book I'm reading, Henning Mankell's Pyramid.  I bought this from Daedalus Books at a reduced price a few weeks ago.  Small bits and pieces of it are jumping out at me as I read it - mere hints of deja vu.  However, I wouldn't be able to honestly tell you whether I'd read it or not.  I went on to Good Reads today to log it as a "current read" and was told that I had read and posted about it in March 2009.

So...here I am, wondering what to do with this information.  I'm going to go ahead and blame it upon the repetitive nature of the crime / detective genre, rather than on complete memory loss.  I think most of these detective stories (they are my guilty pleasure and favorite quick read) are so similar that they sometimes all blend into one.

Well, I guess I will still go ahead and finish reading Pyramid, especially since I don't remember how it ends.