How many books do you read at a time?

[grittylit]

i try to read one... and then if it is too stagnant but i still feel the need to read it.. i bookmark it and read a second.. if the same happens to the second.. i book mark it and start a third... and there i stop and either hopefully returning to the first book... or realising im not going to finish it anytime soon.. drop all three and pick up a magazine... haha

[Etienne]

One or two when I read a non-fiction or a non-pocket size book. Of course, I don't count university in there...

[jlb4tlb]

greetings

I tend to have about five on my NR list. It must be noticed that two tor

three of the books are short Stories'

Go in peace.

Jeff

[Alexei]

It depends on my time, sometimes I have round 15 books on the way, but usually they are round 5.

[Aiculík]

15??? How do you manage that? And you can remember all plots, names, relationships, plots? Wow.

[Alexei]

15??? How do you manage that? And you can remember all plots, names, relationships, plots? Wow.

It isn't so hard, sometimes I read a chapter per day, sometimes I read one book for a few days and after that change it before finishing it and I go to it later. It's not so hard especially if the books are really different in themes, plots and etc.

[amalia1985]

It depends. Usually, I have three in the waiting, but there are times when a single book has-for different reasons- to get all of my attention.

[grace86]

Including university books among my recreational reading and Bible study: about six...but the recreational reading suffers more considering I get grades on the other reading.

Without university or Bible study: about two

Right now King Lear is for Shakespeare class (kill two birds with one stone I say) and then I am reading Don Quixote and then She and Allan for recreation...goes a bit slow but I manage.

P.S....when reading one book does anyone else here get that anxiety to finish it and go on to another book? Like you just can't wait to finish the book so you can start something new...even if the one you're reading is good?? Or is that just me?

[Alexei]

P.S....when reading one book does anyone else here get that anxiety to finish it and go on to another book? Like you just can't wait to finish the book so you can start something new...even if the one you're reading is good?? Or is that just me?

It's like that with me too, Grace, that's why sometimes I am reading so many books at the same time, i just can't wait It doesn't matter if the book is good or not I still want to finish it so I can start with something else. It's like I am trying to follow some graphic

[Ana Lovejoy]

Usually only two, if I don't "have to" read something (but before university, it was only one).

[Sir Bartholomew]

one at a time please

[African_Love]

Do you think it's strange to read two or more books at the same time? For a long time, I've been reading one fiction and one non-fiction simultaneously but never two fiction or two non-fiction at the same time. I don't know why, really. At first it was because I didn't want to 'use up' all the books I had but if the time I spend on one book is lessened because I'm spending some of time I would spend on that book on another one instead, I'm spending the same amount of time reading both of them. Another part of me thinks I should finish what I start but sometimes I'm impatient to start something new. I wonder if I should start letting myself read two fiction (or two non-fiction) at the same time but I think I'd draw the line at 2 (4 in total) if I do. Rarely, I just put books on 'hold' and come back to them later but I don't like to do this with too many.

[mortalterror]

I check about 30 books out of the library at a time, not because I'm going to read all of them, but because I like to keep my options open. Sometimes, it takes me years to finish books. I'm within a couple pages of finishing perhaps a dozen of them at the moment, but I put everything down to start Boswell's Life of Johnson. Why? Sheer perversity, I guess. Maybe an inability to commit or finish what I start? Perhaps, I'm just capricious and willful. I'm rather fond of that King of the Hill quote, "That boy's got a lot of quit in him."

[Pollopicu]

I only read one novel at a time.


I will combine a novel and an art book.

[mayneverhave]

Generally I'm the exact opposite of mortalterror on this one. I'll finish one book if I'm nearly done it because I need that sense of completion.

For the most part I only read one author at a time, and in my recent poetry reading craze its a poet's complete works + important criticism.