Feature & Follow Friday is a weekly social blog hop between book bloggers. There are two regular hosts: Parajunkee and Alison of Alison Can Read, and two special guest hosts every week. If you want to join in, click on either of their blogs to get the details. The FF question of the day is:
Q: Do you read one book at a time or do you switch back and forth between two or more?
I am a serial monogamist, and I almost always read one book at a time.We're talking deep-seated personality hard wiring, so I feel weird taking on more than one book at a time. But if I'm not really into a book, I'll start reading another while simultaneously continuing to give the first a chance. If the second book's good, the first book's a goner.
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I bet whichever side you align with could extend to all sorts of things in life! It's sort of like relationship modes--imagine most of the people at right replaced with books.
Some of us are monogamists; some are polygamists. I'm not sure any of us practice exclusive promiscuity, because the books can't interact yet with each other. Maybe that's the future of digital books?
Yeah I do that as well, 1 book at a time. Although since I don't get much reading done on weekends, I've occasionally, but not too many times, have read short novellas while i had a novel going!
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Have a GREAT weekend!
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That's hard, to not be able to read much on the weekends. Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteHaha Interesting post! I think I'm a monogamist, I just like to have occasional affairs ;-)
ReplyDeleteAnyway, thanks for stopping by my blog! I'm following you too!
I would categorize myself in the same way, on the rare occasion that I read a second book concurrently ;)
DeleteGreat picture and analysis. I would have to say I might sometimes be a polygamist. However, usually a monogamist! Here's my FF
ReplyDeleteGood point! Sometimes you shift between categories.
DeleteI love your diagram. I guess as far as books are concerned I fall into the polygamist category (do you know how hard it was to type that???)
ReplyDeleteBut I try to keep them different so I don't get confused. It helps. I'm going to explore your blog now (the diagram...still amazing)
My follow friday
Thank you! It's good to hear from a book polygamist ;) You are an uncommon breed!
DeleteUnless I also happen to be reading a non-fiction book, I'm a monogamist!
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