Courtesy of Booking Through Thursday
One book at a time? Or more than one? If more, are they different types/genres? Or similar?
(We’re talking recreational reading, here—books for work or school don’t really count since they’re not optional.)
This is a funny topic for me. I always make fun of my hubby because at any given time, he's in the middle of 4 or 5 books and I just don't see how he does it. I have book loyalty; I only read one at a time. It's mostly because once I start a book and I really like it, I can't put it down and read it in a day or two anyway. The only exception to this that I can think of is The Reagan Diaries. I've been reading that one off and on since June but it's really easy to do so since it's a diary.
Personally, from my own observations, people that read more than one book at a time do so because they're not really into any of them so it's easy to bounce around or they have a specific purpose for doing so. JMO though.
I read a lot of poetry, there's no way i could sit and read only poetry though so I always have more than one book. Only ever one novel though.
ReplyDeleteCGP~~ I could totally see that. I think reading poetry would be like reading the diary for me. One novel, though, is my limit.
ReplyDeleteAck! Not so, not so! I'm really into each book I read . . . and its frequently several at a time. =D
ReplyDeleteCarrie~~ Okay! I believe you, I just don't understand it. Maybe my mind isn't as developed as yours to be able to handle more than one book at a time, lol.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I had to laugh at your comment on my blog about the car! No, I don't read while driving, but while waiting for kids... picking them up from here or there... waiting, waiting, waiting... in the car.
ReplyDeleteSuey~~Ah! Well that sheds some light on it. I just truck my current book along with me wherever I go.
ReplyDeleteWhen I used to read multiples it was because, well, I expect because I was a kid with serious ADHD. :) It was easy for me to shift focus from book to book, despite the fact that when I was reading one, I was often so deeply into it that I wouldn't hear a word anyone said to me. So I don't think it meant I was any less into a book.
ReplyDeleteNow, though... now I just enjoy being into one novel at a time. Although I do often read a non-fiction book at the same time.
I'm pretty much a one book person. It's so much easier for me to concentrate on one. Happy BTT!
ReplyDelete-Marie
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It takes a really, really unputdownable book to make me forget all others! I read multiple books at once not out of impatience with the one I'm reading, but impatience to start the next.(And the next, and the next...)
ReplyDeleteI usually have two going but yes I have a purpose -- one I read to hubby on the commute, and one is for me.
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