On average, how many books do you read a month?

[Rebecca]

On average, how many books do you read a month?

[MsSherry]

I have really slacked off on my reading. When I worked midnights ( I had to basically sit and wait for the phone to ring) I was reading at least 2 books a week. I miss that.

[Nessa-Ciryatan]

I work as a casual, so I have a lot of time on my hands. I said four a month, but it may easily (probably) be more than that. If I'm really really into the book, I can finish it in a day or two. When my husband gave me Yucatan Deep (352 pages, smallish print) for Christmas one year, I read it in a day and finished it that night. Usually I'll finish a book every few days or so depending on how much time I get to read or feel like reading for. Finding new and good books to read is an ever-present search for me because I go through so many of them. My husband calls my tightly packed bookcase our "library", lol, and I'm always frequenting my local city library.

Hmm. I suppose I should have made it "Five or more" then... :( :rolleyes: :p

Cheers, :D

Nessa-C

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

Five or more for me, but it varies slightly especially if you have a 600+ page book you're reading. Luckily I belong to a good library so I can borrow most of the books. Otherwise I would have to be a bookworm millionaire.

[FireFeet]

I generally have a lot of time to read at work, so just counting that I read 2 to 4 fiction novels A WEEK. And then I usually have 3 or 4 other books I'm reading as well...non-fiction and research and devotionals and poetry. And, um, I also read the dictionary... :p ...I try to read enough each day to find at least one interesting word to add to my "Words Journal." So, yeah, I'm definitely in the "5 or more category." :)

[MamaCB]

I review books, so I read them and have been lucky to read some really great Christian romances, tragedy and self help books. It helps me to remember simpler days when a romance book was a good thing and did not need to be explicit to get its meaning across. Very wholesome and soothing.

[jvdoles]

I always have about 3 to 5 books going at one time. I switch off from one to another for a bit of diversity. Mostly non-fiction. Been years since I've read a novel--I wait for the movie :)

[rodojeki]

I usually have four to five going at a time....I too have to switch from one to the other for diversity unless the book really captures my heart....I read Nicholas Spark's , The Notebook in just a few hours (but I'm a romantic); it usually depends on the author.
And I have bible reading, devotionals and always some sort of poetry reading that I do daily. But usually 4 to 5 books

Donna

[MamaCB]

I always have about 3 to 5 books going at one time. I switch off from one to another for a bit of diversity. Mostly non-fiction. Been years since I've read a novel--I wait for the movie :)


My husband does the same thing, I asked him, "Ronald why do you read more than one story and don't you get them mixed up?" He proudly said, "Honey I need a little change if I feel the storyline is going slow." Our conversation didn't end there, because I could not read a book that bored me. He assured me he was not bored and the authors each were good. I still do not understand, because I cannot do it. I am like a kid that eats one thing on his plate at a time, I would be a confused mess.

[jvdoles]

I watched The Notebook in just a few hours :) Great movie, well done. Got if for my wife for Valentine's.

I also read the Bible and some poetry everyday--the Psalms, which is Hebrew poetry. Been doing Psalms for about 16 years now. Five a day (150 psalms divided by 30 days in a month equals 5 psalms a day). 1-5 on the 1st of the month. 6-10 on the second and so on. Always something fresh there, even after all these years. Brings out a real interaction between my heart and God's. If you follow my blog (The Faith Log http://faithlog.blogspot.com) you'll soon discover that a lot of my posts are activated by some line from the Psalms.

I just reminded myself about when I went on retreat at the Monastery of the Holy Spirit, a Trappist foundation in Conyers, GA. They pray the psalms five to seven times a day (their cycle takes them through the book every two weeks). Father Gus (Dom Augustine) said that, as they chant and pray the psalms, he just let the lines work on him.

[Babe>Christ]

I'm usually not reading anything other than my bible. :) Every now and then i'll read something. Usually christian oriented. I'm a very slow reader. :o I have dislexia and no reading comprehension. So Getting to read a few verses or a chapter in the bible and understanding the content of the passage after reading it over like 100 times means alot to me. ;) I do better if i hear it. I get alot of books on audio. I would LOVE to read more than I do! :cool:

[Diannecp]

My husband would tell you all I read way too much. It's true - sometimes I read so much, the housework suffers! I said 4 a month, but it's easily more than that. As a kid, I would excuse myself to the bathroom after dinner and sneak a read until mom realized I was getting out of dishes yet again. (As a teen, I made a new rule - whoever cooked didn't have to do dishes. No one seemed to mind me cooking and I got my reading time after dinner!) Hubby calls me book girl and I love it. I usually have 4-5 books in progress, plus 3-4 magazines at a time. At one point, I tried to write a review on every book I read but I was reading faster than I could write so that initiative was shortlived!

[eaglet]

I often find reading to be much easier in the cooler winter months when there is a quietness to life's busy schedule. In the summer it seems people are rushing all over to get things done. I find it quite enjoyable after devotions and a busy time at work to relax and read a book. If anyone can help me with a bad habit I have of reading a good book all the way through (even if it means missing sleep) I would sure enjoy an answer as to how to put a good book down, at least for a little while.
Also my hat's off to those who have said they can read more than 2 or 3 books at a time, I tend to get confused if am reading more than 2. :) !thumbsup! ;) :eek:
so to all the other avid readers out there continue reading to encourage writing.

[pink_novelist]

Probably about 4, so that's what I voted. I usually read three or four books at a time though. My mom doesn't see how I can keep all the plots straight, but I do anyway. ;)

[Kaylee4Christ]

five or more. when I get my hands on a good book, I can't stop reading it until it's done.

kay

[Dustin]

There is no library close to me. And books can be expensive so i can say i only read like one or two a month.
And maybe re-read about 2 a month.

[ToHope]

The past three to four years has been hard to read much because it's so busy between school and work. It'll be nice when it's no school and just work. I read about two to four books a month, four if I'm able to.

I'd probably be fired if caught reading a book at work unless it was during my 15 min. break. It's good that I don't work at book store, it'd be even worse than trying not to play with the toys! ( I work at a toy store.) Just a short few months until I can quit that and go to work for what I've studied and trained to be.

[davenporter]

I read a lot. I don't read amazingly fast, like some of you, but I generally finish a book in three or four days if it's absolutely amazing, which means I'm reading a lot of books each month. I've actually got a stack of about 30 books that I've got to read sometime. And I'm still buying books fairly often, especially this summer, and I probably will be until I run out of money.

[ConstanceB]

In a year, I read maybe half-a-dozen award-winning children's books, 1 or 2 biographies, ten "pop" fiction well-written by my standards (Anne Tyler, Joseph Wambaugh, Amy Tan), perhaps ten "genre" books (mystery, romance), and 2 or 3 fun or funny books. I read or reread a classic or two, and 1 or 2 poetry books. I study one or two self-helps, and an anthology or other non-fiction for writers. I read and respond in a daybook or lesson journal. I don't organize it like this -- this is how it turns out based on interests and needs, plus I'll read like a crazed person for a month and then not turn a page for just as long.

I'm a SLOW and CAREFUL reader. I'll go back to the beginning of a book, for instance, to find a detail I must have missed, or see how a character grew. I'm stingy with my eyes and time in ways I couldn't have been when younger: If a book is written poorly (even a "Christian" book) or the message is ungodly, I quit reading it! That may be simpler since most everything we buy is used and inexpensive. My magazine subscriptions are carefully chosen (no "I just like the recipes"), so I read them cover-to-cover and refer to them often.

[spiritualsister]

Sadly - two. And I only write 'sadly' because in my youth I was able to read 1 every two nights. Granted I would stay up until 5 a.m. in the morning reading and return to school to sleep on my desk...but I was still...reading!

Why would my teachers get mad about that?! :confused: :rolleyes:

[Storge]

I don't know if you guys find this to be true too, but I find that I am reading four or five books at any given time, but only finish one or two of those (and usually that equals about one a month). Fiction I usually read from beginning to end, but I find a lot of the Christian non-fiction lit out there fizzles in the middle or end and I fizzle right with it. :p

[Titus2]

Sadly, only one for me these days. I've had to cut back on reading, to find time for writing and everything else I have to do. I have many, many books here - unread. But I do find time to read every single day, just often only a few minutes worth. That's better than nothing though! :)

[David Meigs]

Before my vision got bad, I used to finish a pocket novel in a day and longer books in three or four. Now I seem to do good if I can read three books in a month.

Curm

[forhymn]

wow, I thought I was the only one with half a dozen half read books lying around,lol.

[Matrnlgirl]

I too switch off between readings. I think it is my Add.