This week, I’ve been reading quite a bit, because I am so close to one hundred books read this year that I want to make sure I hit that number. Why? Honestly, I have no idea. I didn’t have a goal of reading 100 books, but when I realized that it was doable, I decided to go for it.
One of the books I’m determined to finish (and soon) is David Grossman’s To the End of the Land. I have been working on this book since SEPTEMBER. At first, I just couldn’t get into it. I’d read ten or so pages at a time, and then put it down. Now that I’m finally absorbed in it, I have to take breaks because it is just so intense I can’t read too much at a time.
This got me thinking about my general reading habits. I used to be the type of reader who very rarely had more than one book going at a time. If I was reading more than one book, they would be vastly different, maybe one fiction and one non-fiction. Now, it seems that I’ve always got three books started at any time. I may be focusing more attention on one, one may have been abandoned for a while and staring at me from my nightstand, wondering when I’ll ever pick it up again, and another will be one from which I read a chapter or so a night.
I guess I used to think that I would get confused going back between multiple stories, but that hasn’t happened. I think that by juggling multiple books at a time I’m actually reading more. If my mood isn’t compatible with one book, I can just pick up another.
What kind of reader are you? A one book at a time focuser, or a multi-book juggler?
One of the books I’m determined to finish (and soon) is David Grossman’s To the End of the Land. I have been working on this book since SEPTEMBER. At first, I just couldn’t get into it. I’d read ten or so pages at a time, and then put it down. Now that I’m finally absorbed in it, I have to take breaks because it is just so intense I can’t read too much at a time.
This got me thinking about my general reading habits. I used to be the type of reader who very rarely had more than one book going at a time. If I was reading more than one book, they would be vastly different, maybe one fiction and one non-fiction. Now, it seems that I’ve always got three books started at any time. I may be focusing more attention on one, one may have been abandoned for a while and staring at me from my nightstand, wondering when I’ll ever pick it up again, and another will be one from which I read a chapter or so a night.
I guess I used to think that I would get confused going back between multiple stories, but that hasn’t happened. I think that by juggling multiple books at a time I’m actually reading more. If my mood isn’t compatible with one book, I can just pick up another.
What kind of reader are you? A one book at a time focuser, or a multi-book juggler?
9 comments:
I am also one of those ridiculous readers who has fifteen bookmarks in fifteen books at one time. Crazy!
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I'm usually juggling several books at one time. Right now I'm reading three books and will probably start a fourth one today.
I only read one book at a time until I began book blogging. I usually try and cap it at 3. Any more than that and I don't finish anything!
Good luck on hitting 100! This is the first year in...years that I'm not even going to come close. I'm at 73 right now, and I highly doubt I'll finish that many books before the end of the year! My new goal is 80!
I usually read one book at a time, except when one of them is a chunkster. Then that one is for night-time reading. I also occasionally have one going on my Kindle, which I grab to take when I go out somewhere.
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I find it very, very hard to read more than one book at a time and I rarely attempt it. Mostly it would be a fiction and a nonfiction book - books so different from each other that I don't get confused (it must be my advance age LOL). Have a great week!
At the very most I'll have one fiction book, one poetry or short story collection, one audio book, and a comic going at once. I try not to double-up beyond that, or I'd just never finish anything.
I definitely read more than one book at a time, even though they are usually pretty different. Right now I have a book of short stories, a nonfiction book, and a novel. I usually have something going on my Ipad to read at the gym as well. Congrats on reaching 100 books. It still seems pretty out of reach for me.
I am usually juggling several different books at one time.
Wow! I'm surprised that most people seem to be jugglers. Maybe it's because we tend to be be bloggers? I wonder if non-blogging readers have different habits.
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