The Sunday Salon: January 18 (1-18-2009)
Filed Under (Sunday Salon) by Morbid Romantic on Jan 18, 2009 @ 9:37 am
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All the ETC: 
I am getting way in over my head with the number of books I am currently reading. I think the unofficial tally is now seven. Granted, two are my ‘Barnes & Noble’ books: Medicus by Ruth Downie and The Last Wife of Henry VIII by Carolly Erickson. My ‘Barnes & Noble’ books I don’t own and instead use as an excuse to get out of the head, go to a book store, have a coffee and read. I can usually fit one or two days a week aside to do this for a few hours, which gives me a few chapters in one of the two. Whichever one I find first is the one I open. And yes, I even have a small notepad in my purse where I jot down the page I left off on in case I forget. After all, I can’t put a bookmark in and return to it at a later date. I am at chapter 30 of Medicus and only around chapter 7 of The Last Wife because every book store is always out of it.
My problem is that I have a habit of starting another book before finishing some of the others. It has become quite a test of my memory to stay on track with all of the various plots and characters I am encountering. I have to ask myself things like, “Was it Russo the Roman doctor who said this or Sookie the telepathic waitress?” Years of reading for school has birthed in me an insatiable craving to read as many ‘pleasure’ books as possible. I just can’t but consume them without regard to sequence.
Dead to the World I couldn’t help start because I am full on Eric addicted and not at all ashamed to admit it. I am reading A Rumor of War very slowly because it’s my right before bed book and I a read a bit of it before turning out the lights. The Vampire Queen’s Servant and The Other Boleyn Girl are two books I read the occasional one or two chapters from a day. I have an interesting mix of fiction and nonfiction with books about vampires, English royalty, erotic pirates, BDSM, and Roman doctors in Britain.
Fortunately for me, I am about done with two of them and halfway through a third. I think that once I stop those three, I won’t pick up another one and will instead attempt to finish the rest of the ‘currently’ reading pile. I need to start cleaning out the list, too, to make room for some of my challenge books. Naturally, I will end up in this predicament again. Like I said, I can’t help myself.
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I know what you mean about reading so many books. I can usually be found reading four books at a time.
Wow, I’d never be able to juggle that many books!
I almost always have fifteen or twenty books going at the same time. It’s crazy, really.
Oddly, right now I am only reading a single book.
I have several books going at one time too – one of the reasons is because I am reading a chunkster.
I am definitely an Eric addict too!!!
I try not to go over two books at a time, and they have to be totally different. Lately, I’ve been listening to romances on audio at work and reading non-fiction stuff like cookbooks and memoirs at home. Otherwise, I would get everything mixed up in my head.
@Dani in NC- I need to make this my rule, too. I can usually read a book in a week given how much stuff I have to do, but I try to read them in two days if at all possible. That way, no room for confusion. Or little room for confusion.
@Kara- He’s the best character of the series! There should be more Eric. Or a spin off with him as the lead.
@Debnance- That’s definitely worse than me! I am in envy at how you can manage that many books at once.
@Michelle- I have about reached my limit.
@Vivienne- It adds some nice variety in life.