C.J. Duggan has kicked off a weekly Guilty Pleasures blog, and I love the concept. So, every Wednesday I’ll join in and confess my most embarrassing guilty pleasure. I’d love to hear yours.
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Here goes nothing…
Just like the old saying ‘kid in a candy store’ goes, I can honestly, hand on heart say that I behave like that kid around books. And I’m not talking about buying books, because that’s a completely different habit. My weakness is being unable to stop myself from starting a new book when I have several others unfinished. Please tell me I’m not the only one doing this. Plus, I need an excuse to use with hubby each time I buy more books.
To put things in perpsective, I am currently reading… (just counting them in my head)… 9 books, and for each one I’m about half way through.
A lot of this has nothing to do with the middle being boring or I would have stopped reading and stashed the book in the back layer of books on my shelves. It has a lot to do with my writing. I want to research the following:
– What makes this book good enough to be published
– How does the novel start
– What it is that grabs my attention with the starting chapters
– What’s the hook used
– What works, what doesn’t
– The writing style, including POV
In addition to read the billion blogs and books on writing, sometimes the best advice is from the stories themselves.
And I know I can’t stopmyself. I don’t want to . Next time I see another captivating book, I know I’ll pick it up and start reading.
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What about you? Do you read several books at once?
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Definitely! I’ve started keeping track of the new books that I’m reading, (as opposed to books that I’ve read already,) and I usually have about four on the go. Currently the rundown is just:
– Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, in the big paperback.
– Tehanu by Ursula LeGuin, on the Kindle
– Pegasus in Flight, by Anne McCaffrey, on my HP iPaq PDA
I haven’t started anything new on the iPhone since finishing ‘Rock Rats’, by Ben Bova.
I like your style… spreading the books on different devices… exactly what I do:)
Hm, sorry, I always read one book at a time. At least I did until I got a Kindle. So I was just reading two books at the same time, one Kindle book and one library book. The library book was too big to carry around in my work bag, so I took my Kindle instead. But two books at once will be the max for me.
I love my kindle for that very reason – so easy to carry around:)
I’m reading two books at the moment. I justify it by one being a paperback and the other being digital (on my Kindle app on the NetBook). I almost started another one last night, but I try to keep the amount of books I’m concurrently reading down. I feel like I’m not giving a book proper attention if I’m reading several at once (I possess an overactive guilty conscience – maybe I should give it something more useful to feel guilty about 😉 ).
You have very good control… I can’t say the same about myself:)
I have some books I’ve stopped in the middle because another book came along that had more of a time crunch, or it was one that I was more in the frame of mind to read, but I don’t do it like you do it. Your way sounds like a fabulous plan! I may have to start.
Let me know if it works for you:)
Oh man I cannot do that! I can only read one book at a time. There is no way my mind can absorb that many books at once. Wow. I don’t know how you keep them all straight. You must be a great multitasker!
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cheers, MichelleKCanada
I really have no idea how I do it either… it must be why I can never remember other things hehe
I’m a one fiction book at a time kind of girl, but I can read two books at once if the other one is nonfiction. I guess it’s because I can’t keep two separate plots straight!
Probably a good idea:)
I used to read more than one book at a time, but lately I’m having real problems with my memory so I can only focus on one now 😦
I feel like that sometimes too…
If I had access to all the books I wanted, I think I’d be reading more than a few at once. Just like watching a bunch of TV shows! Yet since I go to the library to get books and I only get a few each time, I limit myself to reading one or two at a time.
The library is probably a good way to control oneself… might have to look into it:)
I usually have about three books I read at once, though they are different categories. Right now I am reading the Clash of Kings by George R R Martin, Realms of the White Rabbit by Laura Eno and a book on Buddhism because I like to learn about different cultures. So you are not alone, I think all those with a literary mind are guilty 🙂
You’re 3 books sounds really good… love the Clash of Kings one…:)
Ahhh so your one of “those” people! I bow to you!!
I often go on some book blogging sites where they will say I am currently reading…This, this and this. And I do a double take and think WOW! I never knew people did that??
I am a one book at a time, I just dont have the head space for any more than that, and if I bookmark for something else I feel incredibly guilty. It’s like I am being unfaithful to my other book. Plus I enjoy the savouring of each book and try as I might to take my time I usually finish a book in two days so the turn over is high anyway.
But wow! You must have a lot of book marks??
What’s interesting, is that when I return to a book, I remember everything about it as soon as I start reading… Plus it helps that I listen to audio books in the car, on the treadmill, read them outside on my kindle, plus just reading them when at home:) Must be why I can read so many – I spread them across every part of my life:)
I used to read a bunch at once, and right now I’m technically reading three, but I tend to stick to two at once now (one on the Kindle when I’m out and about, and one on paper at home). There are just so many great books to take in!
I know… I want to read everything and hence why I get carried away:)
I was just thinking about your Guilty Pleasures posts as I messed around on Farmville tonight. That would def be one of mine. Every time I get on I ask myself why ;p
Good to know I’m not alone:) Farmville – never played it… it is good?