You might have looked at my little widget on the side here and thought that it was just silly, but it's true... I really am reading eight books at once. I have been for a while, in fact, switching some in and out as I go. This all started because back a couple months ago (oy vei, has it been that long?) I kept finding myself in places without my book... but wanting desperately to read something, so... I started something new. It wouldn't have lasted this long, except that half of the books I started were parts of a series, so as I finished one of those books, I'd pop the next one from the series into the circulation and keep going.
And I do mean circulation. I'm a bit Obsessive Compulsive when it comes to my reading, so of course I had to set up a system to finish all of these books in a timely (?) fashion... so I've made a list putting all of my books in order of when I started them, and am proceeding to read a chapter from each, then moving on to the next, so that I'm getting a fair look at all of them. I know, I know. Insane.
Of course, I couldn't just leave it at that. New fancies come along all the time, they can't help themselves. I can't help myself! And the rotation, admittedly, can get a little old. (Not that I can seem to allow myself to end it. Heh) So, what do I do when something like say, The Host by Stephanie Meyer comes out? Well. I give one new book priority over my circulation... just one. But that one book I get to read after every other chapter from any of my other books. Circulation book, The Host, circulation book, The Host, etc.
Just how crazy am I, you may ask? (If you really want to know... do you?) Well, I have a list in an old (practically never used!) day planner that has all the chapters I'm reading, in order. For the next... oh, sixty-some chapters. There is no end! Or at least it feels like that. By the time I'm done with just the books I have in circulation at the moment, I'll be done with at least 30 of my 50 books for the year. If I get there, of course. At least I'm finally getting some use out of this day-planner!
The sad thing is, I miss sitting down and reading a book from cover to cover. Straight in one go. And I could probably stop myself from doing this if I really wanted to. I'm not quite so OCD that stopping myself seems like an impossible idea. And yet... I'm okay with what I'm doing at the moment.
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I wish I had the attention span to read more than one book at a time. I just don't. I get engrossed and have to focus all of my emotions and attention on ONE world at a time. And when it's a series, forget it. Nothing else until all the books are read.
Just this past week I tried reading two books at once, one a YA fantasy, the other a paranormal romance. Didn't work. LOL That might be because the YA fantasy was a bit of a disappointment though. Maybe if I pick up another one, I'll give it another go? ;)
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