Hmm, probably two books a month. That's because I have a whole lot to do so I don't really have much time in reading. LitNet added.
Hmm, probably two books a month. That's because I have a whole lot to do so I don't really have much time in reading. LitNet added.
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Sadly, I am usually unable to read more than two 500+ page novels in a month, which is why I take my selection of which books to read way too seriously.
I used to really be able to go at it. I could read up to 4/5 books a month. For me that was a lot with work and other events in life. Now I am lucky if I can read 2. I don't know what it has been lately. It is like I don't have energy (for lack of a better word) to read so many books at a time. This is coming from a person that read all 1024 pages of Gone With The Wind in only 5 days when she was 12!!!! Now I am lucky if I read half of that in a month!
Don't you miss those days when you were young and full of life? Now it is just the time to wait for the peacful grave after a long exhusting life in the elderly's home where you are so weak that the only reason that you can't read a book is that you can't hold the book because it is too heavy at your age. Sad, its very sad. But you just have to live the few days left in your life weeping the past and fearing the uknown near death.Originally Posted by LadyWentworth
Lol, j/k. But this could be an idea for a novel don't you say?
A lot.
In good times, my weekly average circles around 5-6; in slightly worse times, around 3, and times are never truly that bad that I do not get through at least a book or two each week; so I end up reading anything from 10 to 30 books per month. Of course, this oscillates, and the number is rarely at any of the extremes, but usually somewhere in-between.
I read pretty much everywhere; I get to travel very often and thus get to spend a lot of time in trains; I read during my lectures at school instead of focusing on school work; I read multiple books at once. Over the course of time, reading has become my routine which I simply fit into my day.
My main interests circle around philosophy, politics/history, comparative (European) literature, and random things from other fields; so I often end up reading a funny mix of completely diverse things.
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on my 207th book this year. Though that includes shorter novels and poetry and short story anthologies.
I don't have a lot of time because I have so much work to do for school. And then I am happy if I read a book or two in a month. And even these books are usually just books for homereading, so again for school.
I'm quite miserable because of that and I try to read more between school holidays. In the summer I usually read two or three books per a week.
"All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity. "
(Shakespeare, Hamlet, ACT I Scene 2 )
I read probably 8 books a month. But I pace them out: one huge one (the classic type), two modern award-winning ones, two classic plays or poetry (or I substitute them with easy classics that are not so demanding), two entertaining ones, and one reference (about a subject). I read pieces everyday but those don't count. I'm a lit major, so I read going to sleep, read waking up, read in class, read at home. That is my rate when I go to school. But if it is holiday or break then the amount shoots up to 10, 12, sometimes 13 books a month. I have always been reading that now it doesn't take me too long to read anymore. I also read books in other languages as well.
There are two months in a year (one in summer, one in winter) where I don't read any new book, but re-read in each month eight books (of my choice) that I had already read from the last months. This is how I remember everything I read that I think is important.
I don't count short stories or just sonnets or poems because I read those everyday. Oh, the life of being a Lit student, I wish it never ends!
Wow zion! How do you do that? That's incredible.
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I usually read around 3 or 4 a month during school. Though that goes down to about one during my drama season. Your reading time goes down a bit when you get to school at seven in the morning and don't leave till nine at night.
During the summer, I can usually read seven or eight a month.
A room without books is like a body without a soul.
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
I had a thread similar to this on a science forum I frequent. After reading the responses it got I felt kind of ashamed(the one guy said that the most he's ever read was 3 400 page books in a day, and most of them said that they read too fast to say the words to themselves in their head), but after reading these responses I have the opposite feeling. If I'm reading a philosophy book or some book on a particular branch of science that I'm not very well-versed in, it can take me up to a week to finish, and at least 4-5 days. However, for a fantasy, psychology, or mystery book, or for some not-so-deep sci-fi book of the length specified in the OP, it usually takes me a day if I actually take time out to read it, and at the most 3 if I read between doing things. I take breaks from reading when I have money to go chill though, so I'd say I usually read 6 or 7 books in a month, unless it's one of the months when I read nothing but philosophy(this happens to me every so often when I feel like an idiot for a short period of time).
I think if you make a signature, you should inspire some emotion in someone else. I also think it would be pretentious for me to think I could do that.
I had really strict-about-literature parents when I was a kid. They used to schedule my readings and the books get more and more difficult every month. So now I'm used to it. Plus, it doesn't help that my lit professor is very demanding and we have a lot to read as well. I thought about reading a bit slower, but just can't. (then again I have those two reviewing months so I won't forget everything I read)
It also helps I'm a full-time student.
3 or 4, but I really don't remember when did I last time read something shorter then 400 pages. Plus university...
Before university, about 15 per month. I was eating them!
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During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
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Now my natural competitveness is kicking in (*I must read 16 books a month!*).
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Yes. Well, some books still have smashed potatoes or ketchup on covers
Now my natural competitveness is kicking in (*I must read 16 books a month!*
At thunder and tempest, At the world's coldheartedness,
During times of heavy loss And when you're sad
The greatest art on earth Is to seem uncomplicatedly gay.
To get things clear, they have to firstly be very unclear. But if you get them too quickly, you probably got them wrong.
If you need me urgent, send me a PM
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