Comments on: Several small splashes

By: Bob Hank

Bob Hank — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:05:43 +0000

I’m totally lost.

By: CGHill

CGHill — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:55:37 +0000

Not a chance. Either I’ll land on the rug and I’ll itch, or I’ll be on the parquet and I’ll be iced over.

By: Bob Hank

Bob Hank — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:49:56 +0000

You could always sleep on the floor.

By: Lynn

Lynn — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:17:50 +0000

I’ve never tried to read more than two books at a time and my habits haven’t changed all that much since the Internet. The only differences are that now one of my two books is likely to be on the Internet (I read the entire unabridged Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire online. (I think I’m entitled to keep bragging about that in perpetuity.) ) and it takes me longer to get through a book. Pre-Internet I could read a book in only a few days, occasionally only one day; now it usually takes several weeks.

By: unimpressed

unimpressed — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:29:26 +0000

I work on multiple books at a time as well, three or four at a time. One stays by my chair in the living room, one in the bathroom, and one by the bed. I have an iPod with multiple books (usually several in a series) loaded on it that I carry with me to work to read during lunch and breaks.

By: Brian J.

Brian J. — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:21:40 +0000

One fiction for fun. One nonfiction for learning. One “bedtime” book composed of newspaper columns or easily broken segments so I can turn off the light in a couple moments without losing the thread of a larger narrative. And sometimes one classical piece I’m shirking while reading the other three.

Anything that goes back onto the shelf does not count against the total.

By: McGehee

McGehee — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:18:07 +0000

If I can keep from putting it down before I really get started reading it, I will devour a book, and am highly unlikely to try to start reading another one until I’m finished.

I have begun taking longer intermissions during the read/feast, to do such other things as surf the web or watch a little TV. I can’t picture myself ever juggling multiple books, though. It might happen someday, but I’d be very surprised.

By: fillyjonk

fillyjonk — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:41:46 +0000

Count me as another person reading too many books at a time. I began to worry that it was a sign of adult-onset ADD (look! a bird!) but my mother assures me that even as a very early reader, I was always biting off more than I could chew. (She once told me of being very taken aback – I do not remember this – when I had selected my usual nearly-as-tall-as-me stack of books at the library, a woman snapped at me, “Did you LEAVE ANY for OTHER PEOPLE to read?” Because seriously, what do you say to a shrew who would rain on a child’s desire to read? I mean, if you’re a gentle person not given to cursing like my mother is.)