I currently have a few books going, which is very strange considering years ago I used to be a book monogamist.It seems that the past few years I've occasionally had to reset my current reads, hibernating all but one or two. The problem I have lately is my job. I strongly believe in the importance of it & advocate for it, but at the end of the day I don't have the energy to continue making headway in the Lethem chunkster of a (cont)
vivastory novel I started over the weekend when I was well-rested and had the whole day in front of me. It seems that due to work expectations, I'm finding myself more & more building my tbr around what I need to do. I'm not reading anything I have no interest in, but I've noticed that my reading habits have shifted significantly the past few years. I'm curious if anyone else is experiencing this? I tagged the Proulx, bc short form work has been (CONT) (edited) 5h
vivastory a lifesaver in terms of keeping my reading life alive: poetry, essays, manga and short stories have all been a significant part of my reading life the past few years. There were many days/weeks when I was too tired to sink into a Rushdie, Wharton, Baldwin novel but I could certainly read a bizarre volume of PTSD Radio/Blood on the Tracksor get an adrenaline shot of a Bradbury/Matheson story (edited) 5h
monalyisha I used to be a one book at a time reader, too, but my habits have definitely changed! Right now I'm reading 4 (usually, it's more like 3): 1 novel (print), 1 book of poems (print), 1 that's apparently classified as self-help/philosophy (print), & 1 fantasy novel (audiobook). Commuting was the game-changer for me. Once I started listening to audiobooks regularly, the floodgates opened. I still won't read two printed novels at once. 4h
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monalyisha I've also been gravitating towards nonfic this year -- way more than I normally do. I'm not sure if that has to do with my attention span or something else. It's been an overwhelming year thus far. 4h
shortsarahrose I definitely have multiple books going and/or hibernated at a time. Some of it is that I sometimes read slowly but I get a lot of books from the library, so I don‘t finish them before they‘re due. So I return them and will later check them out again and cycle through several at a time this way. 3h
shortsarahrose Also, I used to read a lot more nonfiction (especially 2016-22), but after taking a class on YA literature for my Masters in library science and then having a chronic illness flare up, I‘ve read more fiction, especially fantasy. 3h
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