When I began All for One, I intended it to house a page for book reviews. If you drop by often, you have no doubt noticed there is one lonely book review. I rediscovered my love for reading and found there were some really good books out there and some really not good books out there. I thought I would give my reviews on them. I set myself a reading goal for each year and started reading. Then this year hit, and my son introduced me to Brandon Sanderson the author of the Stormlight series. These books are not small. I have read the first two books; each book has upward of 1200 pages. So, every other book I have planned to read fell away. I have now taken a break and have about three books going at once.

I read digital and print and enjoy both. There is something about the feel and smell of paper that you don’t get from a Kindle or tablet. I use a tablet and have several reading apps. My favorite reading apps are Kindle and Apple. I have Nook and Google books and some others, and I will use them but don’t enjoy them as much. I really don’t like Google books and use it the least. It just doesn’t seem as user friendly as the others. Maybe it is the user. Plus using digital you can have an almost unlimited number of books at any time so there is space saving advantage. Yet I love walking into bookstores and seeing the stacks of books and breathing in the scent. I am almost immediately at ease. Bookstores are my happy place. Whether I buy a book or not. Of course, I usually buy at least one. After all you can never have too many books, right?

What does your reading list look like? Do you read one book at a time or several at once? I usually have several books going at once. I somehow manage to keep them straight. My husband and son are the opposite. They each read one at a time finish it then move on to the next one. I drive my husband crazy because I might have a stack of books close by. My son is in his twenties and is discovering reading for pleasure after school and college. So, for him one at a time is good. Plus, he is reading Sanderson.

Right now, I have three going. I am reading Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis, The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, and Mistborn, by Brandon Sanderson (much shorter than the Stormlight series). I look at my list and realize there is not a mystery among them. Mystery is my favorite genre. I try to balance my reading with some nonfiction which is why there is C.S. Lewis. I also will cross genres, I don’t want to miss any good books, Atwood’s dystopian, and Sanderson’s fantasy. So, I imagine after these I will be ready for a good whodunit.

What are you reading now? Are you like my family and read one book at a time? Or are you like me and have several going at once? I believe there is no wrong way to read if you read. There are a lot of books out there. Pick one, or two, and settle in. Let me know in the comments what you are reading now.

Angela