my whole life i've been a one-book woman. i've never been able to handle reading more than one at once. but once i graduated, things changed in that area of my life. at this moment, i'm reading five (i think) different books. plus listening to chapters of an audio book as their released one at a time by the artist. to me, this is proof that my brain misses being in school. for my entire life (well, since i was, what, 12 years old?) i've been trained to think in subject blocks. now those physical time blocks are gone, it's transitioned very smoothly into the reading of multiple books at once. good, bad? i'm not sure. any other time i've tried for more than one book at once, i end up getting overwhelmed and not finishing any of them at all. usually what follows is a several-month-long absence of reading anything of my own choosing (which right now is... well, everything!). but this time i'm slowly chugging away at all of the books at different speeds. but all of them are getting read - none of them feel neglected at all. which is different.
sadly, this way it takes a tremendous amount of time to finish one book. but we'll see how it goes. right now i'm reading more because there's always a book to fit my mood. always.
as a side note, at work today i'm realizing the therapeutic benefits of ripping scratch paper into bits. who would have thought?
