How many books do you read in a month? After I read the new years resolutions thread I decided to try to read at least 3 novels per month...

I always go through fazes, sometimes i can get through a couple a week (depening on how interesting they are), other times i never read anything for months.

i would read more except i can never find enough to read. constantly buying and borrowing books, me.

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Too much.

I get eye-strain these days..

I don't really count, but I think I can safely say that I read every day, unless something unusual prevents it. I do re-read a lot, I didn't like a book if I only read it once.

I am actually now packing my books in preparation for moving. I ran out of space to add more bookshelves years ago, despite forgoing owning a table of any kind just so I could fit my bookshelves in, so I am looking forward to getting to properly display everything. I have so far packed nine boxes, of books arranged alphabetically by author (or subject, in the case of biographies) and I am only up to 'FA.' And this doesn't count reference, cooking and craft books, which I keep seperately.

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Voted shamefull bottom option. I feel bad about it, and I'm backed up with books, but work and other extra-curricular stuff wipes me out too much and when I get home I just want to do things that don't need any sort of attention span. But I feel like I'm missing out.

Posting this because I'm hoping I'm not the only one who's this way.

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I read quite a lot. I tried the 50 Book Challenge last year but only managed 39 - and blame a few rather "meaty" texts for this.

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Since last September I've been reading around 7-14 books a month. YES I have no life, but I really don't mind. It's going to change when I go back to school; so I'm trying to get all the reading in that I can now.

I don't think reading 14 books per month constitutes not having a life, I think it's a very constructive thing to do! kudos to you!

amity, by "meaty", do you mean that the books were long or just hard to get through?

it took me more than a month to get through "blonde" by jc oates, it was like 900 pages long
great book though. I love jc oates.

It depends. I go through phases. Sometimes I read very little and other times I'll read alot.

i read the same way i cum, in impressive spurts. some months i'll go through five or six books, lots of other months i'll go through no books.

i read at least once every day, but for how many i read in a month ... it depends on the books! usually 2-5 .. haha

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i think there may be something on my head.

same here - depends how motivated I feel

im the same i think. except that i can not commit to doing anything, ever. and when i try to read books (i do try really hard) i get into the first 100-200 pages and just kind of give up?
its not that the books are bad, its just that i can't ever get engaged. and i always fall asleep.

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"when you paint with your eyes closed, you never become picasso, you just become an ironic narcissist with uncomfortable shades".
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Don't try and rush it, it's not about totals or numbers. I always think that when I take twice a long reading a book as someone else, I'm usually taking twice as much in. Though it isn't always the case because of constraints on my time, it's a good way to put speed-reading in perspective and not get down about show offs.

I used to love reading and get through tons before I started my philosophy and english degree. Now I have very little time, and spend a lot of time reading articles and chapters rather than books. I hate picking up a book that an academic has spent literally years or his whole life towards, reading a chapter right in the middle, then putting it back down again. It feels like I'm just using them as an instrument, which is true but sad.

Ah, you always have a refreshingly subtle way with words.

im an english student so i normally read a book a week per paper, and that averages out anything from one to three books a week plus anything i'm reading for funsies (if i have the time). when i'm not studying it's about a book or two a week.

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i work lateshifts so i read alot then, am pretty lucky that way. you should note that i picked 4-6 while wanting to pick the shampoo one.

I mean that they were challenging, or had so much packed into them that speed reading was just not an option, when I wanted to savour every word.

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i go through phases of about one or two a month to 2 or 3 a week. Which is stupid because i love the phases when i'm reading lots and i wish i wasted less time with less enjoyable pursuits. Usually my manic reading stages are ended by long slow books and started by brilliant books.