I tend to read at least five things at once. Sure, readin...

I tend to read at least five things at once. Sure, reading a few poems here and there while still maintaining the narrative thread of, say, a novel or biography, is fine, but I somehow throw in some book of criticism or other, and maybe another biography (very rarely fiction. I read very little fiction). Right now I'm juggling Ayn Rand's bio Goddess of the Market and Isabella Stewart Gardner's bio The Art of Scandal, a few Cole Swensen books, and Poetry, Enclosure, and the Vernacular...