putting down and picking up

[LegalKimchi]

I have this habit of reading a book and Stopping halfway through then picking it up again 6 Months to a year Later. Anyone else have that habit?

[Kristina]

How do you remember who everyone was and what they were doing? I could never do that :P I either get really into a book and can't stop till it's done-or consider it lemmed.

[LegalKimchi]

is not that hard. think of waiting for book two... except book two is the second 200 Paha of the same book

[Fiona]

I have that problem with book series! I sometimes can't remember what the last book was about. The first book in a series usually isn't such trouble to remember, I wonder why?
So no, I have a terrible memory that's why I stick to a book and finish it and that's also why I reread books of a series that much, like every time a new one comes out.

[LegalKimchi]

I have a wonderful memory for that. i've read 2 books... ever. But tell me to take the trash out, mysteriously, and I forget

[Daniel]

I find myself stopping partway through a book if it is no good, or has lost my interest. I let it sit for a while and then feel an obligation to the story to continue, hoping that it gets better. As a writer, I watch for these types of pitfalls in books, because it shows me what not to do. Often times, the lost interest of the reading is not because the book is bad, but the scene they are in is not particularly engaging. Once getting through that hurdle the book improves, and sometimes setting it aside for a bit allows you to realize what you like about the story and your intrigue forces you to muscle through the dry bits to get on with the story. Longer books / series have a greater tendency to suffer from this. (This is not always the case however... sometimes a book is just awful so us, the readers, will set it aside... but not pick it up again in 6 months or a years time.)

[Kim]

I have done that before but it's not something I do on purpose. I was reading Tipping the Velvet for a book club but about a quarter the way in it just wasn't doing it for me.

A year later I saw it on my bookshelf and decided to pick it up and finish it. In the end it was an OK book. It still had my bookmark in it so I went back a couple pages to the start of the chapter and read from there.

[LegalKimchi]

I do it to really great books. I did it to game of thrones and clash of Kings. I did it to the blade itself. my friends say I am crazy

[Scott]

I do it to really long books that get kind of drawn out and boring in the middle.

The two that come to mind are Tom Clancy's Dead or Alive- Took me 4 years to finish
The Rommel Papers- Took me 2 1/2 years to finish.

[Serendi]

I'm more likely to start over if I pick up something from months ago. I do abandon a fair number of books that I eventually get back to. Most common reason - Life interruption.

(I'm writing this one-fingered on my iPad and was interested to see that "I'm more likely to tart over".)

[Kevin]

I do that all the time, like I did with the Crystal Shard. I try to read the book in May of 2008 when I bought it, and left it until really started reading it in August.

[LegalKimchi]

the crystal shard. that takes me back. That was the first fantasy novel I ever read

[Doug]

I do this with really long books, or books that take a while to get into. It took me three tries before I got through Perdido Street Station, and I have yet to finish The Shadow of the Torturer's sequels. Oddly enough, I got through all of Game of Thrones books in one go. Hey, they're page-turners.

[Ruth (tilltab) Ashworth]

My memory isn't bad, but I have a weird sense of things having to come in the right order, so I will often reread several books from a series before continuing on, because then it feels like the flow is much better. So I am the other end of the spectrum to Tastykimchi (great name, by the way; I love kimchi!). If I left a book half way through, I would definitely start from the beginning again when I next picked it up.

[Paul]

My cut-off "gap" for starting from scratch is only about a couple of weeks these days. That's partly a memory thing and partly that if I've put it down it's usually fairly near the start.

As for series, when the new PC Grant book, Broken Homes comes out in June I plan to spend the couple of weeks prior to it re-reading the previous 3, but that's because I enjoyed them so much. Other series I often check out Wikipedia for synopses.

[LegalKimchi]

I have a friend rereading the wheel of time series. its taking him months and he is doing it because the last book came out. I lemmed the first book.
and I also love kimchi. I grew up on it. I have a kimchi fridge in my garage, as any smell conscious korean should.

[Jonathon]

Generally, if I put down a book and forget about it then chances are I'll skim the bit that I've already read as a catch-up and then pick up where I left off. I never used to leave a book unfinished but I've found that since I got my Kindle I find it easier to do it because the DTE isn't there taunting me - it's a thing where if I can see I've left it unfinished it'll bug me until I do

[Mark]

I tend to read several books at the same time - one at work, one at home (and sometimes another one when i get bored with one of the others) so it doesn't take much for me to get back into a story when i pick it back up.