If I can quote Doctor Leodard Zepplin: “Ramble on.”

I read. I read a LOT. I read ANYTHING. I read EVERYTHING. And I read quickly, so quickly that it rarely takes more than an evening or two to finish something. Consequentally, I have never had more than one book open at a time, for pleasure reading. For research or resource or technical stuff, sure. Then it;s all spread out over the house, the office, the living room, the kitchen, the car…
But for pleasure reading, nah. I read too fast to worry about it.
And honest, for pleasure, fiction’s the thing. Biography is a very close second, with historical stuff right up there as well. I tend toward the sociological rather than political- ‘The Great Brdige’, or ‘Modern Times’ as opposed to ‘Boss Tweed’s machine’ or ‘’The Billy Mitchell Affair’, though both were good reads too.
ah hell, I’m rambling.

recycle the maybes at the charity shop

you can always buy another

I��d always been a lover and collector of books, and with retirement looming ahead, I began to see ahead of me the opportunity to enjoy all those books that I had collected during my working lifetime, plus those that I intended to acquire. It was about then that I realised that I really did not know how to read. Oh yes, I was literate, but I used to leap from book to book according to whichever one happened to catch my eye, like some literary mountain goat. I would start a book, switch to a magazine, start another book, then a technical journal, until I would find I had as many as a dozen books in progress ? typically five in the bedroom, five in the lounge, and a couple more in the loo. I would have so many books competing for my attention that I could never remember where I was with each one. And there was always another book that looked more exciting than the one I was reading.