I've said it before
and I'll say it again.
When I am in full-on edit mode I'm a tougher reader.
I am in full-on edit mode and recently I stopped reading two books I started because they weren't good enough. On a different, non-editing day I suspect I might have finished them but I did not. During this same time someone handed me a short narrative they'd written and asked me to cast my eye over it. Inside I was thinking, "I am not sure you want this. Now is not the time." But in fact I focused mostly on grammar and flow and less on content because I am sometimes capable of lowering my edit gun to "stun" instead of "kill."
Yet it still strikes me as remarkable how my sensibilities change during these transitions.
One of my writing instructors told me he couldn't watch films because most were bad and he didn't feel he had the excess time to spend (waste) on them. I thought that was harsh at the time, but I have more sympathy for that viewpoint now.