Describe one of your reading habits.
This has been a BUSY reading month for me. I don’t mean that I read a lot of books, but I mean that I have a lot of books that I NEED to read within a certain timeframe. I don’t often deal with deadlines when I read, except for when I’m behind on scheduling reviews and know I need to finish my current book by a certain day to keep up with my review schedule. Right now, I have multiple books with deadlines: an ARC that needs to travel to the next person in line by the end of the week, library books that are due in a week, a physical ARC that was released a week ago that deserves a review quickly, and a book I need to finish for a guest post by the end of the week…. EEK.
How can I get this done when I normally only read one book at a time??
I’m not sure about other bloggers, but I feel like most people out there read more than one book at a time. I normally can’t do this. The most I can handle is listening to one audiobook while reading one regular book. Sometimes the stories confuse me, if they’re both in the same genre or have similar generic contemporary romance-related plots, but most of the time I just don’t want to read more than one. What’s the point? It’s just as fast to read one book at a time and focus all your energy on it, as it is to read multiple books at once and take longer in general because you have more pages to read. I like having an audiobook going while I have a regular book going because it’s easier to keep them separate AND it does allow you to read more books in a shorter amount of time. I only listen to audiobooks during times where I can’t normally read, so it doubles my reading time!
In this extreme circumstance, in order to get caught up, I’ve been “reading” more than one book at a time. I started Trial By Fire after I finished some other books I was working on, so I could get started on it before Damsel Distressed arrived. I only have it for one week, so I paused Trial By Fire to get going on it. Meanwhile, I finally got a library card and got a little too excited – so I checked out two books (Dissonance and Just Like the Movies) that are due at the beginning of October. Dumb choice. Now, I have a guest post due at the end of the week that involves Just Like Fate. Luckily I already own this one, but I still have to read it before Friday! [More info to come on that!] Not to mention, I joined up with Swoony September…so technically I should be reading a bunch of contemporaries this month from my TBR!
I think I’m doing a pretty decent job of staying on track, but it’s going to suck putting off Trial By Fire even longer because I have to get going on Just Like Fate. Hopefully I can better organize myself next time! I’ll just take a breath, remind myself that I can renew my library books, and keep plugging along. At least I’m enjoying these books so far!