I hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday afternoon! I’ll have to make this a quick Salon post as I still have quite a number of reviews to get done, as otherwise my blog will be silent all week. While you all might appreciate the break, I’ve been doing that far too often these days for the number of books I have to review.
I’m having one of those rare weeks in which I’m in the midst of three books at the same time. I’m normally a monogamous book reader; I read one at a time. Otherwise I find books take me too long and I start to get impatient with them. But right now I find myself in the perfect position to read three books at once and switch between them. I’m not sure it’s something I’ll continue, but it struck me that these three books are the perfect mix of my reading tastes right at this moment.
The one I’ve been reading the longest is Dark and Stormy Knights, an anthology of urban fantasy edited by P.N. Elrod. This is one of the books I got from the Strand when I visited New York City this summer, mainly because it had a story by Ilona Andrews in the Kate Daniels universe. I read that a while ago, and have been working my way through the rest of the stores in the anthology since. It’s good and has made me interested in a number of the authors’ works, which I’ll say more about when I write my review! Anyway, that has the fantasy side of my interests well covered.
I’m also reading A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I’ve not had anything to do with science for at least six years now, but as I think I’ve mentioned before, my lack of school means I really want to learn things. I’m learning some things related to my job, but I spent 8+ hours a day thinking about those. I want to learn other stuff too – sometimes I think I want to know everything. My husband read this book and got on quite well with it, so I thought I’d give it a try too. I’m only a little bit into it so far, but it’s not beyond my comprehension yet!
Lastly, I started By Fire, By Water by Mitchell James Kaplan last night, mostly because I couldn’t resist when the author kindly asked me for a review and made it possible for me to get an ebook. I’ve got this on my Kindle and read about 20% of it this morning, so I suspect this one might actually be finished first, as I’m enjoying it a lot. That’s my renewed interest in historical fiction for you right there!
So, three very different books there, which means they sit separately in my head and I can read them all at the same time. Do you read lots of books at the same time, or are you ordinarily a monogamous reader like me?
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I used to read many at once, but since I started writing reviews, well for some reason I only read one at a time
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Your post was a good reminder for me that I’ve been meaning to read By Fire, By Water sometime soon. I tend to read a bunch of books at once, and then not for any specific reason other than I enjoy it.
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I have tried reading several books at once. but get pulled away by the most intriging book, leaving the other to sit on the shelf and wait.
I always have at least two books on the go, sometimes three, but not often more than that!
One of these days I will read Mitchell Kaplan’s book.
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I’m definitely monogamous, but I can read one book and listen to another with no problem.
I normally am monogamous with books, but happen to have 5 books going right now, and it’s kind of becoming a problem right now. I am not sure how it happened, but it’s all terribly confusing and I am not getting much read while all of these books are in flux. When I finally get them all done, I am going back to one at a time, that’s for sure!
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I start a couple of books, and go with the one that I am most interested in, and yes I am one book at a time person. But I can red an eBook, and another physical book at the same time.
I hope you enjoy all your reads.
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I love the way you phrase that – “a monogamous reader.”
I’m definitely not one…I usually am reading anywhere between 5 and 10 books at the time. Like your current booklist, though, they’re usually pretty distinct and there’s no risk I’ll mix them up. I like having the freedom to switch between books depending on my mood and actually find it really difficult to read just one book at a time. Nice post!
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Looking forward to your thoughts on the urban fantasy anthology. It has such a cute, punning name
I’m a monogamous reader most of the time, because there always seems to be one that gets left behind if I try to read multiple books. I wish I could read more than one, because that would make me feel super productive.
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I always have a print and an audio going at the same time. More than that, something always seems to suffer and ends up being abandoned for no real reason.
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Mitchell James Kaplan sent me a copy of the book too, must make time for it in the next month or so!
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I definitely recommend By Fire, By Water. I heard Mitchell speak last summer about this book and found it to be one of the better ARC copies I picked at up at that library conference. I agree that with you that I tend to read one book at a time. I have found that sometimes reading a fiction & a non-fiction book at the same time is doable.
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