January 16, 2017

My terrible, horrible, no good, very bad reading habits

Realizing that I was even thinking about writing this post lit a fire under me, so I knocked out three of these over the weekend. Just saying. 

I can't even make this up.

This is how many books I'm currently in the middle of and I just need to finish one (or two, ideally) like right now, because I'm waiting on two very-much-desired holds to come in via the Kindle from the library. That'll put me at 8 current books if I don't get going here...




I'll explain:

Raymie Nightingale. This was from the book order and I grabbed it to pre-read, thinking it'd be a contender for a read aloud. A DiCamillo book is usually a winner in some way or another. It turned into my blow-drying read: I read it while I blow-dry my hair. It's not terrible, but it's not that great, in my opinion. I see the value in it, as a middle-grade book; there's a lot of value actually. But I just am not loving it enough to cruise through it. I do a few chapters a day.

In the Woods. This sat in my car for a week because it was going to be my "I need to get my tire fixed and will need something to read for at least an hour while I wait"-book. I'm scared because I didn't like Tana French's second book (The Likeness) in this series, so I wanted to give myself a do-or-die situation with this one, to really give it a chance. Now I've only got a week to finish it and I'm like 1/6 of the way in. Sigh.

Ashes. This has been my before-bed read. A couple of chapters a night. Slowly but surely. I've been waiting for it to be released since 2011 and there's a sense of I-don't-want-this-series-to-end happening here.

The Mothers. My current audiobook. I like it. But I get distracted with podcasts SO easily. I have one or two that come out each weekday and those always take precedent over an audiobook.

The Girl Who Lied. I downloaded this for a dollar a few months ago when I didn't have anything to read, got a few chapters in, and liked it well enough, but I own it and library books always take precedent over books I own. It's just sitting there, waiting for all other options to be exhausted.

The Family Jewels. I had preordered this Rose Gardner book 6 months in advance. When it showed up, I read a little bit and then stopped because I need to conserve and preserve: the next one doesn't come out until April. I just need to read it already but I need to finish all of these library books first...

In addition to all of that, I like to pick my way through The Happiness Project again each winter, and Angi sent me a gorgeous two-volume edition of all the Little House books for my birthday. So I'd love to re-read that right now.

I really do believe I make things more difficult than they have to be, like times a million. It reminds me of Michael and the deer-hunting story.



What are your reading habits? Less abnormal than mine, I'm guessing?

11 comments:

  1. i used to take out tons of library books at a time and then i'd be sitting there trying to rush through them. discovered that i don't enjoy reading that way so now i only get one or two books at a time and i can really concentrate reading them (i enjoy this way more!).

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  2. In the past I would often read 2 books at a time, one lighthearted and one that was more non-fiction/heavy. This year I'm trying to just read one at a time. I'm not even letting myself check out any more than one e-book at a time from the library and I'm hoping that will make a difference.

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  3. hahahaha i have never had 6 at once, but i normally have 3 or 4. i'm really trying to slow it down this year and just focus on 1 or 2 at a time. but it's hard! it's what i feel like + what i'm doing + what's available. i have so many books i own that i need to read, but library books magically keep showing up and they need to be read as well, so... you know.

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  4. I usually like to do one at a time... but I have 3 going right now. My brain is exploding

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  5. lol, I love The Office quotes but that one always makes me cringe for the deer! Lol. I'd like to read more as well, I have trouble doing that since my downtime usually involves being on my computer instead.

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  6. Now that I listen to audio books, I can manage reading more than one at a time. I never used to do that before. The only time I really read that many physical books as once is when my students are doing novels. I read their chapters along with them to keep them fresh in my mind. We're also doing a book study this year at work, so there's nonfiction professional text mixed in there.

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  7. I'm the same way! I'm always reading more than one, it's hard to finish them all lol.

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  8. One book at a time. Which one depends on my mood.

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  9. I used to do this more than I do now, mainly because when I was in school, I had a lot of books to read for that PLUS whatever I was currently reading/needed to review. Right now I'm only reading one book, and about to start another, so it will be two at the same time.

    -Lauren

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  10. I have two going right now -- a fiction and a non-fiction.

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  11. I'm really just a one book at a time kind of person--maybe one book for education and one book for pleasure, but not two in the same category.

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