SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

Currently I'm reading 5 books

Return to Quag Keep = car/out of house book
A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century = History and quite long and detailed
Crystal Singer = SF
Ink & Sigil = Fantasy
Random Violence = Mystery

this is typical for me and I try to keep the 3 fiction books on my Kindle distinctly different, though in this case two of them are mysteries (Ink & Sigil is an Urban Fantasy Mystery) so it's easy to switch between them

Never. I can't do it. I have to finish one book before starting another.

I rarely read more than one book at a time, but I happen to be doing that now. I borrowed a book from a friend. She has asked me to only read it at home. So I have a travel book as a second read. I actually finished and reviewed my first travel book and have started another one. I've been having less time to read at home these days.

Before the advent of ebooks and audio books I was always a monogamous reader. Now I usually have one of each on the go, but at least one eye-read and one ear-read. I usually have a non-fiction too and poetry, but I can go weeks without reading in those.

I have to admire people who can read multiple books at a time, I can only read 1 at a time. I don't have the attention span for more than 1 book.

I can to an extent the situation I'm in now is the book I wasn't finished reading. I had to return to the library so I rented another to read in the mean time. Hopefully until I can get rhe book back in 4 weeks to finish I can read the one I have. Only reason to read multiple and keep up with it.

Depends on what kind of mood I am in - I had five going at once within the last two weeks - just finished up three of them. I now I have one book left to read in a haunted trilogy box set and two books left to read in an urban fantasy trilogy. I have at least two books normally going at once - sometimes three - just depends.

The only reason I had five this time was because one was a buddy read and the other two I was wanting to read around Christmas. lol :)

I typically stick to one, maybe two books at a time, but this discussion reminded me of when I was a kid, reading the Warrior cats series, there was a point where I was reading three Warriors books at once! I was in the middle of one of the books in the main story, as well as as a side story sort of spinoff book, which I would alternate for my bedtime reading, and then I was also reading the field guide, which I would take with me to school and read between classes!

I typically have one audiobook and one ebook going, in the pre-corona days when I commuted 4 hours a day, I had an extra audiobook just for commuting, sometimes if a book drags on I put it on back burner, while reading/listening to a couple of more lightweight Novels

I typically have three books going at once. One audio, one ebook and one physical book. I find that the different formats make it easy to keep the narratives separate and this allows me to "read" wherever I am and whenever I have a few minutes.

I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebook at a time.

Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebook at a time."

that's how one of my Kindles ended up taking a dip in the dogs' water dish - the bathroom was the only safe place to give them water due to splashing and slobbering

CBRetriever wrote: "Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebo..."

Sorry to hear that.

Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebook at a time."

I always kept "The Day My Bum Went Psycho", "Zombie Bums from Uranus" and "Bumageddon"beside the toilet. Perfect toilet reading :)

Jeff wrote: "Sorry to hear that"

it turned out OK - the rice treatment fixed it and it's still limping along

Jacqueline wrote: "Jeff wrote: "I used to have one in each bathroom, one in my bedroom, and another at work (for breaks and lunchtime). My wife hated that I kept books in the bathrooms! Now I pretty much read one ebo..."

One of my friends once got me "The Great Big Bathroom Reader" (or something like that) for my birthday.

Read one at a time, e-book.

I read two ebooks plus one physical book at the same time, but they're all completely different from each other. That way I don't get confused.

Michelle wrote: "I read two ebooks plus one physical book at the same time, but they're all completely different from each other. That way I don't get confused."

that is the key - normally I have

one sci-fi
one fantasy
one mystery or other non SF&F

going at the same time.

It depends on the day for me. I'm currently eBooking and listening to the same series dependent on what I'm doing. That way I keep the story going nicely.

Sometimes I listen to one book, while I read another.