Inspired by something @Slicky mentioned
How many books are you currently reading? What are they? Is there a reason you’ve got more than one/only one on the go?
Tell me all about your general reading habits!
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Was reading somewhere in the region of two books a month before I moved and started walking to work. Haven’t read a single book since. Annoying really.
I don’t think I’ve ever started a new book without finishing the previous.
Only ever have one book on the go at a time, but will read newspapers, websites, magazines, comics etc alongside it.
4 books on the go myself at the moment
Have on occasion stopped part way through one if something more interesting has caught my attention. Usually only do that with books I’ve read before though. Recently started Grapes of Wrath and read two (2) other books before finishing it. That’s quite unusual though.
You’re welcome.
I have a David Conn book on the go, and started a bit of a nonsense war fiction book over the weekend.
I tend to go through phases with reading - occasionally voraciously, sometimes going weeks without touching a book.
When I split with my ex and moved my books out, I found 23 had bookmarks at differing stages of partial completeness.
Edit - sorry, replied in the wrong place.
Been terrible at reading since I stopped getting the train to work. Like my reading rate has gone from 20-30 books a year down to like… 3-5, if that 
Terrible stuff. Need to read at lunch / in the evenings more.
Never read more than one at a time unless it’s fiction and non-fiction, can’t deal with getting those characters mixed up in my head man.
Relevant as I usually only have one on the go, but unusually actually have two on the go right now…
Reason? Was reading the first one on my commute on the rare days that I don’t cycle to work, but then on Sunday had to wait four hours for the RAC to come out and fix my car and bought the second in order to bide the time…
Forgiven.
Simply cannot read more than one book at a time. Gotta savour that narrative without distraction.
Have just started Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye and after that I’ve got E. M. Forster’s Passage to India lined up.
CCRU collected writings
Capitalist Realism
and The Book of Five Rings since I seem to read far too much post modernism these days
Did you go back to those?
Most of them, I think, yeah.
I answered 9+ because I’m really good at starting books but not very good at finishing them (though I do intend to read them all)
My reading habits have gone to shit since I got a smartphone. Fuck smartphones.
Trying to finish this:
Just starting this:
Still slogging through this:
I demand a list!
I’m reading Behind the Curtain by Jonathan Wilson and (re)reading the Swimming Pool Library by Alan Hollinghurst. Don’t tend to do much reading at home as I have to read a lot a work. I generally have a couple of books on the go and just dip in and out of them, unless I’m on holiday or taking a long train journey.
Currently reading:
History of the Rain, N Williams. Great but slightly worthy, hence
We are all made of Glue,. Easy read for tired evenings
Independent People, Halldor Laxman. Bedside read, bit generally asleep in 5 minutes so…
Kindle…the Cleaning Woman stories that were the book group on here. Almost finished!
