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Carol:This is an excellent topic and the bookshelves are one of the reasons I have come to love Goodreads so much! I love the flexibility of multi and overlapping bookshelves. I have five books on my CURRENTLY READING shelf, and I also have a LIBRARY-TBR shelf where the five library books I have out that are not actively being read are shelved. Those bookshelves overlap on the TO READ shelf with twenty-nine books there currently. Some of the TO READ books are my own that are in the bullpen warming up and some are a recent wishlist type book.
As most of you who "know me" are aware, I have always had 4-5 books going at once. While I rarely forget about one of those 4-5 books, it was easy to lose sight of the other books I had started and put aside; and I love to update my status on my currently reading shelf - who knows I may be the reason some people want to turn off email notices for Goodreads since I do that so often - sometimes 3-4 times a day per book.
I used to keep all sorts of browser windows open to try to keep up with books for comments. I had theAOL MT Board open, my library site open, which is two since their search site is actually Encore, and Amazon for more book details in case the library hadn't purchased a new book yet. Now with Goodreads, the only thing I do is have a couple of Goodreads browser windows open so that I can go back and forth for reference. I don't visit my library site or Amazon as often. I am simply addicted to Goodreads!
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "The beauty of GR is that I now can feel free to keep several books open concurrently, and don't forget about them. I used to never read more than one book at a time, then I went wild and went up to two... So, how many books are on your currently reading bookshelf? (or, if you don't use the bookshelves, how many books do you consider that you are currently reading?) "
Carol:Yes, I have deleted a couple of books from my to read shelves after starting and realizing I was not going to finish or read enough to even give a one star ranking. This is one reason, as well as for the backup nature of my Excel spreadsheet that I doubt I would ever go strictly to Goodreads or any other site to keep up with my books exclusively. My Excel spreadsheet still lists the books I will never read - though I suppose I could make a shelf like that here too.
It is fun that Goodreads encourages you to view other people's books they have shelved the same way -- I may have to see if there is a shelf like a "never read" this book shelf. g>
And as a note for those of you who have not "become a Goodreads friend" to others here on the group, a big part of the fun of the friend status (aside from potentially more OPTIONAL email notices) is the ability to compare books with your friends and see their bookshelves. For example Carol and I have one book in common on her CURRENTLY READING shelf of eight! books - Jim Butcher's Fool Moon which I loved!
Carol/Bonadie wrote: "Do you ever retire or remove a book from the list unread? I picked up the book on Coach Bill Belichick a few months ago, having been given it by my co-worker, but I haven't touched it in awhile. Part of it is probably that I don't feel that I have to return it anytime soon; if it were a library book I'd either read it or decide not to, for now, and return it. "
I strive for two books at a time, at least one a paperback so I can drag it around with me for those unexpected opportunities to read (some people call it "work"). I'm at 3 now only because i am dragging through "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson.Barry
I normally only read one book at a time but I'm reading two books now. A mystery Midnight Come Again by Dana Stabenow and Fortune's Rocks A Novel by Anita Shreve with Claudia. We are really enjoying the Shreve book, too. And I always keep a book in my car for those times when I need something to read.
I'm strictly a one book at a time person. I like to give an author my full attention.
I usually have 2 going at a time. Usually a hardcover that generally stays at home, unless it gets REALLY good and I can fit into my purse (one reason I carry big purses!). Then there is always a paperback in my purse. This week I had 3 going for a while since DEAD AND GONE came and there was no way I could put it aside and wait to read it! And my niece was also bugging me so I could pass it to her as soon as I finished!
Usually, just one at a time. But this week, I had a library book upstairs (Heaven Preserve Us) and one from my TBR pile downstairs (Stiffs and Swine). I did finish the upstairs book this morning...so now I'm back to one. But I am definitely thinking about what's up next :)
I have two going right now. Both from the library. One I've not officially started reading - but since it's on a deadline, I feel compelled to keep it on the currently reading list. :)
definitely a one book at a time girl here. i had two on my "reading" shelf and had to move one to the waiting to be read shelf..lolcutting for stone has been on and off the shelf so many times.. i finally am really reading it, though.
Carol asked: "Do you ever retire or remove a book from the list unread?"LOL, Carol. Just seconds before coming here to find this question I removed the Julia Spencer-Fleming book from my "currently reading" shelf that I'd just put on there yesterday. I've got three books in my current reads right now. Two are nonfiction and just too dense to hold my attention or call to me in my end-of-school madness.
Yesterday I just chose the first book that occurred for a lighter read, but today I decided to read Laura Lippman's latest. I'll put it in my current reads when I remember the title (or walk across the room to look at it.)
Carol described: "Well, I start a book, then I put it aside because the one I've been desperate to read came in at the library, then I heard about this new nonfiction book I thought would be interesting, but that's not fiction so I will read that in a different way. Oh, then there's the book I'm reading aloud with my dad. Then, another recommendation comes in and I set the first aside completely but I still intend to finish it. And of course another topic catches my interest, and..."
Have you thought about Ritalin?
Dr. O'Cat
JanOMalleycat wrote: "Have you thought about Ritalin?"woo! Who wrote it??
J/K ;)
~gracee
Dan:I do only read one at a time!
....and I agree that it is important to give each book I am reading my full attention - when I am reading that book.
It would be torture to drive to work without an audio book, so that is two books with whatever main book I am reading at home. I love to read a book with my Mom, but we don't share the same tastes and aren't together all the time so that is three. My other one to two books are usually non fiction, the type you can read for weeks or months and pick back up easily - and the type I wouldn't want to read exclusively and miss out on the escape of good fiction.
I am blessed with the kind of memory that allows me to read more than one book and at different places without missing a beat. I can pick each one back up and engage in the story again with no difficulty. Sometimes the only hard part is wanting to finish one of the "other places" books at home!!
Daniel wrote: "I'm strictly a one book at a time person. I like to give an author my full attention."
Reading more than one book is a good way to read more books for me, (6 going now)lol I know its crazy) I just finished [The Forgotten Garden:] so 3 more library books to finish and [Fortunes Rocks:]along with Donna. Why I never read this before is a mystery to me. Goodread so far ; )
I have 3 going on, one is the bible, one is absent friends my upstairs book beyond reach downstairs book and body count car/baseball book. If I read one book, I end up leaving it somewhere and then can't find it. This way I have 3 in places I read. teresa
I usually have 1 library book, 1 kindle book and 1-2 audios going at the same time. My books do have to be very different though - I get easily confused(lol).
JanOMalleycat wrote: "Carol described: "Well, I start a book, then I put it aside because the one I've been desperate to read came in at the library, then I heard about this new nonfiction book I thought would be interesting, but that's not fiction so I will read that in a different way. Oh, then there's the book I'm reading aloud with my dad. Then, another recommendation comes in and I set the first aside completely but I still intend to finish it. And of course another topic catches my interest, and..."Have you thought about Ritalin?
Dr. O'Cat ..."
Dear Dr. O'Cat,
What, is there a problem?
Ann wrote: "I am blessed with the kind of memory that allows me to read more than one book and at different places without missing a beat. I can pick each one back up and engage in the story again with no difficulty. Sometimes the only hard part is wanting to finish one of the "other places" books at home!!..."Ann, I could have written your entire post. The only problem I am finding with having several books going is that I have trouble deciding which one to pick up when I have some reading time, and even when I've decided on one, the spectre of the others is off to the distance, waiting to be read. (I'm sure Dr. O'Cat will have some comment to make about this as well.) This doesn't happen all the time, sometimes I'm only in the mood for a particular book. But other times I'm not particular. So I think I will try to narrow the active books once I've finished them.
I'm so glad Carol started this thread, as I would NEVER have imagined that there are so many people who read more than one book at a time! I have no idea HOW you would keep everything straight. I do well reading the paper AND whatever book I'm reading that day. :o)After 34 years of marriage, I can truthfully say I'm a one man woman, AND a one book at a time woman. :o)
Jan, when you retire from teaching, you should seriously consider doing stand up comedy! Your 'Ritalin' comment cracked me up!
Donna in Southern Maryland
CR: Desert Cut by Betty Webb
(this is about a very serious and disturbing subject!)
That's one of the reasons I love this "board", or group now. The comments that are and can be made without offending anyone, and absolutely has everyone in stitches. back on topic, I have only two books going at one time. one either on my kindle or an actual book, and one audio that I listen to to and from work and while running errands. And sometimes if they are both in the same genre, I have been known to be a little confused when starting one back up.
I'm definately a one at a time reader. I am usually too involved in a book to want to split my time with another bunch of characters.
Usually it's more than one but at the moment it's one library book. Picked up two on friday I believe and read one on saturday (that was why I haven't been online since I don't know when) and I'm reading the second one now. One was on reserve the other was one that I took off the cart of extras they have. Neither can be renewed. First was Danielle Steel's newest I believe the one now is Barbara Delinsky's newest. I have started a few of the DLs but they aren't a everyday thing. And I have a Fern Michaels started but put it aside while I'm reading the library books. 
Im glad to hear of everyone that reads more than one book at a time...It seems like Ive always done that, and it works for me.
:)
Im currently reading: Twenty Wishes and Married in Seattle by Debbie Macomber, Chopping Spree by Diana Mott Davidson and The Quilter's Apprentice
~ I hope to finish at least one of these very soon...
Melissa wrote: "Im glad to hear of everyone that reads more than one book at a time...It seems like Ive always done that, and it works for me.
:)
Im currently reading: Twenty Wishes and Married in Seattle by Deb..."
Melissa,
I just finished Twenty Wishes and thought it was a nice read. I also really enjoyed The Quilter's Apprentice and the other books in the Quilter's series.
Im looking forward to more books in The Quilters Series..and Im a huge..Debbie Macomber fan!
I'm usually a one book at a time person. I don't like to split my focus. Although the school situation did have me reading one book for school and another for recreation. I'm relieved that the semester is over. I just completed my final assignment for the semester last night.Other situations where I may end up reading two books are: 1) The book is a hardcover BFB and I don't want to carry it around. So I pick up a paperback for the bus. This happens occasionally. 2)The book has a cover illustration or title that could lead to my being harassed if I read it in public and I don't have a concealment cover that's the right size for it. So I pick up the next book on my TBR and make it my public read. This happens more rarely.
Shomeret
currently reading: Revelation by C.J. Sansom (historical mystery)
Re Quilter's series-- I had The Lost Quilter on hold and it came in during finals week. I didn't have a chance to pick it up and the hold was canceled. I guess I'm going to have to get on the hold list again. Frustrating! Well, at least this isn't the other library system I deal with where they'd charge me a dollar for not picking it up.Shomeret
I finished reading While my my sister Sleeps by Barbara Delinsky good book. Now I'm deciding betweeng going back to the book I was starting before that Lethal Justice by Fern Michaels which my sister likes the series or Riptide by Catherine Coulter which I didn't start yet and it's the hc version. Since I'm probably going to be home this weekend with the big weekend the following (hoping to go friday the holiday weekend to see Collective Soul and Rascal Flatts at the beach. We saw Beach boys a few years ago and my sister said never again I told her this morning since I just found out who is there (it's the WPLJ beach blastoff)and she said she's not promising anything. Anyway, I figure starting the bigger hc is doable next. She will have the two library books to read and it will give me more time to get read the other books and get ahead alittle. I also have the first in the Quilter series on my DL list. One of these days I'll start it.
I read one fiction book at a time, but I have many non-fiction books in progress. Right now I have the following in a stack on my nightstand: Henry III by Alison Weir, Free to Choose by Milton Friedman, Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls by Hershel Shanks(Editor), Hillary Rodham Clinton A Living History by Hillary Clinton, The Tipping Point by Malcom Gladwell, and Profiles in Courage for Our Times by Caroline Kennedy (Editor).
I'm with Donna on this one. I'm a one book at a time girl. But I do keep a book in the car just incase I forget my book. But that's very rare. I remember when my oldest was in kindergarten, I put a Kathy Reichs book in my truck. It was only to be read while I was waiting for him or whatever. Just my car book. Well, he's going into 10th grade and I've never finished the book. I think I got about 3 chapters done. It's been 2 trucks and 9 yrs later. I actually moved it to each truck too. Now it's in my piles in my room. Some day, like when I'm driving to visit him at college. LOLLori
I am usually always reading one at a time and then listening to an audio. When I first started with audios I would try to listen to something completely different than what I was reading but don't worry to much about that now.
At one time I kept a book in the car but I found it never got read. It was one that was short stories so I figured it was something that you might be able to handle and if not I really didn't care. Today I forgot a book at home and I went out to eat someplace that it was light enough and I could have read while waiting for my food.
The whole car book is a must for me, Gabi and Jake. I have 4 to cab around so there is always time for them to read in the car, which makes for a nice trip for me. I usually have wait time between stops so I read then, otherwise I would be so bored. I tried puzzle books but I always lose those.
Dan:You'll love my current reads bookshelf count today. Now I am up to six instead of my usual five. I have Markus Zusak's book, The Book Thief audio on CD's from the library. I have been near the house all weekend without my usual commute I decided it was too much trouble to set up my PDA in the car to play Lethal Legacy A Novel for fiive to ten minute trips here and there; so I started listening to The Book Thief a couple of days ago too. It has grabbed my interest and I look forward to getting back to it; but I will go back to listening to Fairstein on the way to work tomorrow first. :)
Daniel wrote: "I'm strictly a one book at a time person. I like to give an author my full attention."
Saandi:I don't worry about that too much either, though do try to avoid two police procedural or serial killer books at the same time unless they are from different countries -- like Armand Gamache in Canada and Alex Cooper in NYC. (currently reading A Rule Against Murder and listening to Lethal Legacy A Novel )
Sandi wrote: "I am usually always reading one at a time and then listening to an audio. When I first started with audios I would try to listen to something completely different than what I was reading but don't worry about that too much now..."
re similar reads--I try not to read a book that is too similar to my last read because I'm likely to max out on the genre. That's what happened a while back with vampire novels. I read too many in a row and now I rarely want to read any. Most of them sound too much alike. Yesterday I was reading a high fantasy novel. Today I'm reading a contemporary mystery. That's the way I like it.
Shomeret
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Well, I start a book, then I put it aside because the one I've been desperate to read came in at the library, then I heard about this new nonfiction book I thought would be interesting, but that's not fiction so I will read that in a different way. Oh, then there's the book I'm reading aloud with my dad. Then, another recommendation comes in and I set the first aside completely but I still intend to finish it. And of course another topic catches my interest, and...
You get my drift.
So, how many books are on your currently reading bookshelf? (or, if you don't use the bookshelves, how many books do you consider that you are currently reading?) Do you ever retire or remove a book from the list unread? I picked up the book on Coach Bill Belichick a few months ago, having been given it by my co-worker, but I haven't touched it in awhile. Part of it is probably that I don't feel that I have to return it anytime soon; if it were a library book I'd either read it or decide not to, for now, and return it.