Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!
I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent.
I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!