How many books do you have going at a time?

[CrispyQ]

Poll question: How many books do you have going at a time?

If you visit the non-fiction forum frequently, there's a good chance you have more than one book going at a time. Someday's I look at the stack on my table & gasp in disbelief, but usually I manage to get through all of them, albeit slowly!

I just finished "Unequal Protection" by Thom Hartmann, the June title. And yes, I promise to post a final book report soon. I also just finished "A Pretext for War" by James Bamford about the failures of US intelligence agencies after the cold war -- very good! I'm currently reading the August title, "A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn & have just started "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think" by George Lakoff, an extension of "Don't Think of an Elephant."

Curious how many & what titles you have going right now.

[wli]

1. Over 10 is due to textbook reading involving exercises/homework.

I get through things fast enough I don't have to read more than one at a time otherwise.

[Richardo]

2. I've got 3 going

Just finished
"Economic Hit Man"; (going to start "The Last Trus Story I'll Ever Tell" tomorrow);
"Acts of Faith" by Philip Caupto (novel about relief workers in Sudan); and
"Prophet of Zango Street" (Short stories by a writer from Ghana).

[akarnitz]

3. Current list

"Ishmael"- Daniel Quinn
"Live From Golgotha"- Gore Vidal
"D-Day"- Steven Ambrose
"Battle Cry of Freedom"- James McPherson
"Ulysses"- James Joyce

Confession: I've read the middle three before. I should probably be cocentrating on ONLY one of the others.

[Hamlette]

4. I need a definition: can I count all the books I intend to go back to?

but may not because I'm a TOTAL book junky and between this place, salon gook reviews. npr and the ability to buy used books online...I'm hopeless.

Did you read the review of Truth at Salon? I might have to have it! I'm a lost cause.

[abluelady]

5. Do Audio Books Count?

I usually have one in the car on, one in the kitchen, one in my office and one in my bedroom, in additon to the couple I really read!

[CrispyQ]

6. Welcome to DU, abluelady!

:hi:

Yes, audio books count. Glad to have you on the non-fiction forum!

Now tell us, what titles are you currently reading?

[abluelady]

12. Thanks for the Welcome

I am currently reading Madeline Albright's memoir and Thomas Friedman's new book, "The World is Flat" and I am reading a book on Irrationality--perhaps it will explain the moron.

[La Coliniere]

7. One is never enough for me.

Just finished " The Partly Cloudy Patriot" by Sarah Vowell and I'm in the middle of "The Culture of Make Believe" by Derek Jensen. The Vowell book was an easy, breezy enjoyable read. The Jensen book is heavy, depressing, and provocative, but a necessary companion to his brilliant "A Language Older Than Words",(which I nominated for the Sept. book of the month - lost out to "Freakomonics", I think). Waiting in the wings is a biography of the great Orson Welles.

[terrya]

8. 2.

1) "A People's History of the United States" - DU book club selection for September.

2) "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington. It's one of those Barnes and Noble Classics selections. I just started it.

[NMMNG]

9. 3 right now

"A People's History of the United States" by Howard Zinn

"Incendiary" by Chris Cleave

"Darker Masques" (a horror anthology) by various authors

[Time for change]

10. I usually read between 6-20 at a time

But I'm a very slow reader. I just read a lot at the same time because a like a frequent change of pace.

[closeupready]

11. I have several going on,

typically, something light and funny for my commute, something really junky for nights (like a horror or mystery book), something edifying for weekends and long reads, and something classic and well-regarded as good writing for just when I'm in the mood for something to read that I can tell others snobbishly that I'm reading. LOL

[CrispyQ]

13. Love your snob comment!

LOL!

Welcome to DU, closeupready! Glad to see you on the non-fiction forum!


:hi:

[StudentOfDarrow]

14. Anywhere from 3 to 12 at a time.

I love reading. :D

[CrispyQ]

15. 12!!!

I'm impressed! Care to share some titles you currently have going?

[StudentOfDarrow]

17. Brave New World, Flowers for Algernon, 1984,

The Canterbury Tales, Why do Men Have Nipples?, Blinded by the Right, and God's Politics are my current books.

[Captain Hilts]

16. Generally three. One fiction, two non-fiction.

I just finished Martha Sherrill's My Last Movie Star

and am reading Slade Cutter: Submarine Warrior by Carl LaVO.

I'm about to start reading James Curtis' biography of W.C. Fields.

[progressive_realist]

18. Currently reading between three and ten books,

Depending upon how you define it.

Actively reading:
1. Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides
2. Our Kind, by Marvin Harris
3. The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, by Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray

Intermittently reading:
4. Vineland, by Thomas Pynchon
5. Tribulation Force (Book Two of the Left Behind series), by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins
6. No Gods No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism (Book One), by Daniel Guerin
7. Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins
8. Theoretical Physics, by Georg Joos
9. Synergetics, by R. Buckminster Fuller

About to start:
10. A History of Celibacy, by Elizabeth Abbott

No, there's really no pattern to what I read. Although I will say the Left Behind books are awful, Vineland is Pynchon's worst work, and Tom Robbins is over-rated as a writer. That's why those three books linger on my reading list -- I may never finish them.

[stillcool]

19. i only read one at a time...

i go to the library and bring home five. Of the five, i usually read between 2-3. I sometimes bring the same book home multiple times before reading. Currently reading 'A Very Thin Line' by Theodore Draper, and waiting again is Phillip Agee's CIA Diary.

[Lifelong Protester]

20. finishing soon....

Working Poor: Invisible in America by Shipler.

I recommend it, especially if you liked Erenreich's "Nickeled and Dimed" (and I am sure I spelled her last name wrong~sorry!)

[sagesnow]

21. 3 books minimum usually wait in my book line up.

Just read: Party of One by Anneli Rufus
(recommended by Buffy the Fundy Slayer)
The Introvert Advantage by Marti Olsen Laney
The pH Miracle- perennial dieter
The Bell Jar Sylvia Plath
In the middle of reading:
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell
(love her style and her politics)
Suburban Safari by Hannah Holmes
(makes you look closer at the wonderful
life and death struggles going on in your
own back yard)
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
(great but too depressing to read all in one hitch)
Up next: Stop the Next War Now Benjmin and Evans
Freakonomics
No Plot No Problem (because NaNoWriMo is coming up soon.
For anyone with the secret desire to write as well as
read, go to www.nanowrimo.org.
National Novel Writing Month is in November)
www.nanowrimo.org.

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

22. I try and keep to a 3/4 max

but lately that's gone out the window. I came into a bit of money - went crazy ordering books - and as a result I want to start each book as soon as it arrives! I've currently got about 15 stacked next to my bed, most of which I've only read about 50 pages of.