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Meme: Musing Mondays

Feb 7, 2010 Meme

Musing Mondays2 Today’s MUSING MONDAYS post is about a random book.

I’ve seen several bloggers mention reading multiple books this week. Do you frequently read more than one book at a time? Do you try to limit this to a certain number? Do you have different books for different purposes/topics?

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I used to read more than one book at the same time, particularly during high school. I’d have a book that I’d be reading at school, a book that I’d be reading at home and maybe a book on the side that I’d be reading while travelling to school, LOL. I think the max that I’ve had going on at the same time is 4? When I started my undergrad, the number of books dwindled down because I’d be reading quite a bit for school (especially in first year undergrad because I took an English course so I’d be reading assigned books from that too) at the same time. However, towards the end of my undergrad, I’d be juggling about two books at the same time so that wasn’t so bad.

Nowadays, I usually stick to one book; because of the nature of my grad program with lots of reading on politics and history and theory, I need that one book that I can escape to and unwind with. That book can range from classics to spy thrillers to just a regular fiction novel If I’m reading more than one book (as my GR status may indicate), the second book usually would be associated to my major research project (like a book discussing the cultural history of Russia) and the third would be a poetry book (another escape book…though I don’t read poetry that often).

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