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Book Blogger Hop, Pt II

Book Blogger Hop

All right. The question for this week is:

 "Do you read only one book at a time, or do you have several going at once?"

Oh-ho my. I have an issue with book commitment. I start a new book, and it's exciting and fresh, and I get really jazzed about it, and then 20% of the way through, almost without fail, I start getting bored and want to start another book. I once had seven books going at the same time, because I kept getting bored and starting new ones. It's a sickness.

Right now I'm being pretty good and working on The Monk, Northanger Abbey, Kissing the Witch, and I'm about to start Waiting for the Barbarians since my friend lent it to me. But The Monk and NA are basically books I only read when I'm at work, so I don't see it so much as working on four books, as having books in different locales. Yes.

This entry wasn't as good as some of the others, but I shall rally on the morrow. Yes I shall.

Comments

  1. erikaMarch 17, 2011 at 10:21 PM

    Yes. I have the same sickness.

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  2. HeatherMarch 17, 2011 at 10:46 PM

    Stopping by on the hop.
    I wish I could read multiple books at one time - I'm a one book at a time kind of girl!

    Books Are Life,
    Heather
    www.booksarelife-vitalibri.blogspot.com

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  3. Reading RamboMarch 17, 2011 at 11:02 PM

    No, do not even wish to venture down that path. It is a hazardous one, full of false starts and few endings.

    Wait...maybe it's good for paths not to have ends. Because that'd make it a dead end, right? Wait, no. That's it. I'm giving up on metaphors.

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  4. SarahMarch 18, 2011 at 12:18 AM

    Happy Blog Hop!

    I'm so amazed when people can read this many books at once! How in the world do you focus??? LOL

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  5. Ms. CMarch 18, 2011 at 12:56 AM

    Hi,

    Found you through the Hop and now following, too. I've looked through your past posts (oh so interesting!) and I'm really looking forward to reading your future work.

    Feel free to stop by my blog in your spare time, http://www.coffeetalereviews.blogspot.com/

    Take care & happy reading,
    Ms C

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  6. Anne@HeadFullofBooksMarch 18, 2011 at 1:02 AM

    I usually have multiple books going at one time, too. I just finished Jane Austen week in my library and the featured book was Northanger Abbey. I like the book and it is relatively easy to read compared to her other books.

    -Anne
    My Head is Full of Books

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  7. AnonymousMarch 18, 2011 at 2:40 AM

    I guess as long as it works for you, who is anyone to judge your reading habits :)

    Here's my Book Blogger Hop: 3/18-3/21 post!

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  8. Alexis @ Reflections of a BookaholicMarch 18, 2011 at 3:20 AM

    I don't really like book beginnings. So I'm always more excited when I get into the middle of a book and I understand what I need to. I guess we are opposites.

    www.reflectionsofabookaholic.com

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  9. Reading RamboMarch 18, 2011 at 6:43 AM

    @Sarah

    I have a short attention span? So really it's very much me NOT focusing. :D

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  10. Alison Can ReadMarch 18, 2011 at 7:50 AM

    Hopping through. New follower! I find it hard to focus on just one book, like you, and tend to read multiple ones. I really want to read Northhanger Abbey. It's one of the only Austen books I haven't read.
    My Hop

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  11. MysticaMarch 18, 2011 at 8:10 AM

    Coming through on the hop.

    I have no problem reading two books at a time though it does not happen often. I generally like to finish one and then start another.

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  12. Reading RamboMarch 18, 2011 at 8:45 AM

    @Alison, NA is hilarious. It's a bit rougher than her others since it's her first, but I really like it. Try to read one of the Gothic novels it's making fun of too, if you can.

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  13. AnonymousMarch 18, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    I read only one book at a time. In fact, I have this weird quirk where I don't start reading a new book unless it's been at least 24 hours since I've read the last one. I don't know why. I guess I like to have time to think about them and letting everything sink in.

    Lol, that sounds as if I were reading Nietzsche and not Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the umpteenth time. But one obviously needs enough time to think about Quidditch.

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  14. Reading RamboMarch 18, 2011 at 11:11 AM

    @waterfly89

    that sounds as if I were reading Nietzsche and not Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone for the umpteenth time. But one obviously needs enough time to think about Quidditch.

    Best. comment. ever.

    One totally needs time to think about Quidditch. And I admire the fact that you give yourself time to think about what you've read. I'm way, way too impatient for that.

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  15. JamMarch 18, 2011 at 11:17 AM

    I read Northanger Abbey followed by Mysteries of Udolpho, and Northanger Abbey, while funny in the first instance, was way awesomer afterward.

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  16. UnknownMarch 18, 2011 at 12:40 PM

    I can only read one at a time or I get all mixed up...I am now a follower, Happy reading!

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  17. AnonymousMarch 18, 2011 at 1:05 PM

    Only one book at a time for me, stop and see mine.

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  18. Reading RamboMarch 18, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    @Julie I can't find your blog! Or do you prefer to dwell in secret?

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  19. AnonymousMarch 19, 2011 at 1:54 AM

    Hi
    Just hopping by and following through. I can't read multiple books at once, but I read fast enough that boredom isnt really an issue

    Shelleyrae @ Book'd Out
    www.bookdout.wordpress.com

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  20. JamMarch 19, 2011 at 7:54 PM

    I don't have a blog! I 'm not sure why it shows my name as clicky.

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  21. Reading RamboMarch 19, 2011 at 8:34 PM

    @Julie Oh it's YOU. I was like 'Who's this person who left the awesome comment? I must follow their blog.'

    But I already know you. And we need to get pie when it gets slightly warmer and you're not going insane from exams.

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  22. JamMarch 19, 2011 at 8:55 PM

    SORRY TO DISAPPOINT. Yes, pie. I am more or less a Free Woman starting Friday.

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