Reader Problems #Book Tag - #AmReading

I found this tag on The Sassy Book Geek - just so you know where I got it.

I'm not tagging anyone, but I'd love to read your answers, so if you want to do it too, go for it. You can either post your answers in the comments section of this post, or do it on your own blog. If you do the latter, don't forget to make sure I know where to find it, because I'd hate to miss your answers. For now though, here are the questions, along with my own answers:

1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide what to read next?

It depends. If I have books I got copies of in exchange for a review, I read them, starting with the one I've had longest, and working my way through them in the order I received the copies. If I don't have any review books to worry about, but the book I was just reading is part of a series, I'll read the next one in the series if I have it. If neither of those applies, I'll randomly pick one that appeals to me at the time.

2. You’re halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you quit or are you committed?

I'm commited. If I start a book, I finish a book.

3. The end of the year is coming and you’re so close, but so far away on your Goodreads reading challenge. Do you try to catch up and how?

I always try to fit in as much reading time as possible. I suppose I try and squeeze in a bit extra if I need to catch up on my reading goal, but mostly I try not to worry about it. Besides, as a general rule I'm ahead on that anyhow. I'm somewhere around 15 books ahead of schedule on my Goodreads reading goal for this year at the time of writing this, for example. So... *shrugs*

4. The covers of a series you love do. not. match. How do you cope?

Quite easily. Even when I could still see I didn't care too much about the covers. I mean, sure, matching covers would be nice. But if not... Well, as long as I have the books, that's what matters at the end of the day. It's what's between the covers that counts.

5. Every one and their mother loves a book you really don’t like. Who do you bond with over shared feelings?  

Nobody. I don't need to. People like and dislike different books. If everyone I know likes something I don't, or the other way around, who cares? I sure don't. I just won't talk about that book with them, even if they try to get me to do so. Or, if they insist on talking about it, I tune them out and don't listen. Problem solved.

6. You’re reading a book and you are about to start crying in public. How do you deal?

If I can keep reading without crying, I will. Otherwise I stop reading, put the book away, and get myself together, finishing reading the book later... When I can cry in private.

7. A sequel of a book you loved just came out, but you’ve forgotten a lot from the prior novel. Will you re-read the book? Skip the sequel? Try to find a synopsis on Goodreads? Cry in frustration?!?!?!  

Re-read the book, and then read the sequel right afterwards.

8. Reading ADD. You’ve picked up and put down 5 books in the last month. How do you get over your reading slump?  

This has literally never happened to me. Yes, there are books it takes me a while to get out of my mind, but that doesn't stop me moving on to the next book. So, to be honest, I don't know what I'd do if it ever did. I don't think it's very likely though, since I'm always commited to finishing a book if I start it, which I think is probably why I don't have this problem: train your mind to know you need to finish what you start reading, and you'll automatically want to. That's my opinion/theory anyhow.

9. There are so many new books coming out that you’re dying to read! How many do you actually buy?

It depends on available funds, and cost of the books in accessable to me formats.

10. After you’ve bought the new books you can’t wait to get to, how long do they sit on your shelf before you get to them?

It depends if I have any review books I need to deal with, if I'm in the middle of reading something else (and whether that something else is part of a series I have more of the books for) and how badly I want to read it. Sometimes I'll start a new book the same day I buy it, and other times it could take me a couple of years to get to it. So, it varies quite a bit.