When you're reading a lot of different writing at the same time, and you're never reading any of that writing for a very long time at any specific time, then you're reading the writing more as writing than you are reading it as the experience of whatever the writing is being or becoming. The magic and mystery of writing, or of anything that is created, including people, happens when you are reading them or living with them or - more generally - being with them long enough so that the spirit of them emerges and becomes present to you as something distinct from the more immediate sense of the form. It is distinct from the form, and yet it is only there because of the form. It is there because of the form and because of your engagement with the form over a period of time consistently. That is the magic formula. Reading things periodically is not the same as reading them continuously over an extended period of time. Your engagement with it makes a difference. And the extent of your engagement with it makes a difference. This is true of many things.