How about you? How do you decide? What are you going to read next?If you know.
Thursday, January 28, 2016
Do You Know What You Are Going to Read Next?
How about you? How do you decide? What are you going to read next?If you know.
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When I finish a book, I go to my huge TBR pile and select several to look at. then I read opening sentences and stuff until I decide sort of on impulse to go with one particular book
It's usually pretty random, although I try to read library books in the order they're due back (especially the newer books that I can't renew because someone else has requested them). I can't read to a strict reading list because too many new things pop up. This is one of the many reasons I'm not in a book club.
I never know what I'm going to read next. Sometimes it takes a lot of looking around to find the right book.
I do a lot of picking up books and reading the first page. The voice has to speak to me. I am a very impatient reader. Whereas Phil will give a book 50 pages I need to be grabbed at once. And if I like the voice, I will stick with a book with almost no plot.
Usually, that's what the little To Be Read bookcase is for, it holds the "top candidates" for reading next. It's a matter of looking over the books there, usually about 20 or so, and then picking what I'm in the mood for. However if a library book has come, that come first. If nothing in the TBR sounds appealing, I think of a series I like and find the next unread book in it, hopefully something on the shelf. If I'm still not sure, I read short stories until something comes to mind.
This can be either a joyful task or a frustrating one. Because sometimes nothing feels right and other times, you find exactly what you were in the mood for.
This year my goal is to plan my reading less. Right now I know there are two or three books I intend to read in the next month, but I did decide on the spur of the moment to read A Murder of Quality by Le Carre and am now following up with The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and those were both perfect choices for now. So a little of both.
If I have library books, they generally get priority. Otherwise, it is more random. It's how I feel, what I have available - especially true of short story collections - or sometimes by recent review or recommendations.
If I have library books, they generally get priority. Otherwise, it is more random. It's how I feel, what I have available - especially true of short story collections - or sometimes by recent review or recommendations.
I usually hae a general idea of what I am going to read next but, more often than not, something bright and shiny shows up and my plans go up in smoke. Inconsistency is my goddess.
For entertainment I'll scan my Kindle library, which isn't as often as I'd like. Usually looking for something I need--research for something I'm writing or something referenced in something I'm already reading. Something. (I could use a thesaurus, couldn't I)
Nice review, Mathew.
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Every once in awhile I look at the database of books I have bought and not read over the past few years and make a TBR list. I maybe look at that list once and then do my usual, i.e, wander around into different rooms and my basement until I find the next book I decide to read. These days I find myself with a fiction and non-fiction book on the go at the same time. As for library books, I do read them first when it's a book that I requested and that I know other readers are waiting for. These days I find myself going to journalism collections frequently as I don't seem to want to get into anything "big" such as a long novel. I can't tell you how many times I have picked up Don Winslow's The Power of the Dog and put it back on the shelf. And I must read it before I read his latest The Cartel.
Funny how similarly we all operate. I have several books I have almost read for many years. But never quite.
I not only don't know what I'll read next, I don't know what I just finished.
Until I had a blog I was completely random, and now it's the opposite - I usually know everything at least a month in advance. Not sure that's a good thing ...
I know which of several books I've started that I hope to finish at a given time, and the weekly exercise helps compel the finishing or at least some explication of why it's in progress and why it matters.
Today will be a busy day...I finally have the time and energy to catch up with two weeks worth of A/V and the monthly music (due yesterday). And signing up for RomneyCare.
Right now, I'm reading the book that's due at the Library next. My approach usually is random. Occasionally, I'll binge on one writer's books. But, no, I have no Grand Reading Plan.
I generally have things pretty much mapped out, at least in groups. For instance, I saw my To Be Read shelf has gotten too full, so I'm going to read all of those "next," before I start any more major buying sprees. When deciding what to buy, though, I consult a lit of who my favorites are, and when they were most recently read so no one falls through the cracks.
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