Do you jump straight into another book or wait a bit??

Since I wrote this I've been in am almight book slump 🤣😭

Ha, yes this is me!!
Just done it after finishing Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty.
I didn't rate it- and neither did others!

@DoNutSweatTheSmallStuff

I do this if I hate a book/it annoyed me in some way. I love seeing other people agreeing with me 😂 after I read A Little Life I think I spent longer reading 1 star reviews than I’d spent reading the book!

I usually have four books on the go, one on audible, one on my kindle which I read in bed, one on my phone which I read when I get to work early after dropping grandchildren at school and at break time and a real book in the car when I am waiting for school to come out.
I always have my next book ready to start as soon as I finish the current one.

Straight away. If I’m reading in bed and I know I’m nearing the end of my book, I have the next one lined up, ready. I’d feel twitchy, otherwise!

When I finish a book, I like to digest it before moving onto the next so won't read more than one book in a day.
I also like to read reviews once I've finished a book.

I would also wonder why Jane Austen ‘deserves respect’ but Tolkien doesn’t. I don’t really buy into ‘literature snobbery’ anyway. I wouldn’t bother reading a book I didn’t feel was worth respect. Although I’m also not keen on people bragging about/holding up high ‘a classic.’ Oh you must devote yourself when you read ‘a classic.’ Jane Austen is just romance/social writing. Old romance, but still just romance. I mean if you prefer ‘classics’ then crack on, but it seems daft to decide some books are worth respect, then half read others that aren’t worth respect.

I know what you mean but I don't think reading more than one book is a lack of respect. I've really enjoyed the experience of reading War and Peace over a year (thanks to MN!) as it helped me to ponder it for longer rather than rushing on.

As someone else has said, I have different books for different "activities" - so I have a book on my kindle which I read on the commute, then I have a physical book at home which I read when I'm at home and then usually another physical book at work in my drawer so that I can read something at lunch time if I don't want to continue with the kindle book. Also, I find that I prefer different books on my commute (which involves a few tube changes/breaks where I may also have to be listening to announcements etc) to when I know I can dedicate my time solely to a book such as the odd occasion when I'm on my own at home without pre schoolers/husband.

I jump straight into my next one unless my last read was so good that I have a “book hangover” I tend to switch my genre so if I’ve just finished a thriller I’ll go to a romance!

I read several at once so there rarely is a gap.

After a really good book I feel bereft. Sometimes I need a day to grieve the end of the story. I find it hard to jump into another.

If it's just trashy novels (most common if I'm stressed with no brain space) I can go back to back (and confuse all the stories usually!)

Philip Larkin used to read three books at once: a toilet book, a downstairs book and bedroom book. I'm the same. I've always got at least two, sometimes four, on the go. Unfortunately, I've got a bad habit of not finishing them. So I never really have that experience. Right now I'm reading a biography of Charles Darwin (dry and too long), Peter Ackroyd's book on Blake (really good, though way too much detail on London), and Anthony Burgess' Enderby novels (masterpieces).

That said, I do think you should devote yourself when you read a classic. I mean read only that, and then spend a few days meditating on it after you finish. I planned to have that experience when I read Hawking's Brief History of Time. I imagined myself going for long walks and chewing over the nature of the universe. Then I found I could hardly understand a word!!

I did put away every other book last summer when I read Pride and Prejudice for the first time (better than I expected). I also focused just on Great Expectations, To the Lighthouse, Brave New World and Dorian Gray. Books like that deserve respect. But when I'm reading P G Wodehouse or Tolkien or Patrick Leigh Fermor, I feel less guilty about dipping in and out and not finishing.

Usually wait till the next day. When I was younger it was a few days, think I used feel more emotionally invested in books!
Occasionally I will read more than one at a time , but different types of books, eg a non fiction and a fiction book.

pleasejustgotosleep Yes, it could easily turn out like that. I made one of my resolutions this year to read more, particularly in the day (with no associated guilt!) and so I’m not hurtling through them.

I'm reading Anna Karenina a chapter a day (thanks to the thread on here!) I read it before I get up along with two "year books" that have readings for each day.

Usually I wait a while until the next book calls to me! In the meantime I read a short story or some of the many nonfiction books I read a bit at a time.

It depends. If it is a really good book that I enjoyed a lot I won’t start a new one until the next day. I feel like I need the time to ‘digest’ the book I really enjoyed, and absorb it fully. But if I didn’t enjoy it too much I’ll just jump into the next one. Right now I have a long reading list for uni so I always have something to jump into!

Jump straight in. I am a chain reader. Give me those kindle books.

Yesterday I read a book in the morning and started a new one in the afternoon. I also have an audiobook on the go. They are all quite different books so it's easy not to become muddled.

If Ive really enjoyed the book I've just finished I often spend time trying to guess which of my next possible choices will be as good, fidgeting about, weighing them up in my mind. Then I sometimes even use a decision app to choose from a short list 🙄. Often I start a new one and realise it's not what I'm after at that time and wonder if I'll ever get into a good book again 🙄🙄.

If I've quite enjoyed a book but it's not that great I can already be deciding what to read next when I'm still reading the last 100 pages or so, slightly ruining it in the process 🙄🙄🙄

I try to be chill about the whole thing but who am I kidding?

If I've just finished a really good novel then I can't read another one for a while. I like being totally immersed in a world, and if I've enjoyed it I want to spend some more time there in my head and don't want to leave too soon to go to another world. I also have to have a book on the go though, so I get around it by alternating fiction with non-fiction.

I usually have at least two books on the go at anyone time one next to the bed and another in my work bag for on the train) and when I finish one I immediately start another. In fact if I see I am getting close to the end I get the next book out ready and often have two in my bag for that very reason