Kingdom of Knuffel

Wow, that's a lot of money in books.
I use libraries a lot, which is free.
And I buy some indie books in bundles from some websites, which is very affordable. Also Kindle Flash offers are cheap.

I do buy some books full price, but only selected ones.
I'm so behind in my to-read list that there is not point in buying many.



Yes, I like balancing two books at a time.
For examples, non-fiction and fiction.
If I read short stories I like reading only one at a time, then I pick up the other book.

I used to do more than two but that's become quite unusual lately.

I've never been into poetry.
I don't know why. Like it's a lot of effort for my brain or something.

Ailey, yes, definitely!

Like Amura, I'm more likely to have multiple books going at once if there is nonfiction involved.

So right now there's that bio of Eugene Bullard that I haven't quite finished, I'm a few chapters in on almost a full dozen maths textbooks (I keep thinking, "I remember this stuff, it's fine, I'll go forward here" and then get caught by some concept I *don't* remember, so I have to go find a book that has THAT in it, only it'll be more engineering-biased maths instead of chemistry-major-biased maths, and I have to look up another textbook to review something else.... it's taking me a while), then there's that darned "Bridge at Remagen" that is STILL not finished, and a timeline of food science developments which I picked up for a specific reference but then started reading and haven't finished, and a book on how to draw charicatures which I'm determined to only go on to the next chapter when I've drawn twenty attempts at the current chapter's focus, so that's taking a while, and a book on building a kiln in your backyard which I recently found and which I want to see how possible it might be for me. But looking at the space requirements I don't think I can. Pity. So I might just not finish that one.

Then there's the book I'm in the middle of fiction-wise, which is a romantic-comedy fantasy called "The Unleashing" (since I finished "Dark Lord of Derholm" and "The Year of the Griffin" last night).


Multiple books.

Yep.

Mostly non-fiction.

Well, that depends on what you're looking for. If you want, written-for-the-layman, interesting philosophy and history of maths or biology that's one thing. If you want a straight-up textbook with easy to understand introduction of concepts and some nice example problems, that's a whole different kettle of fish.
What are you looking for, exactly?

Medical-books-wise, I was intrigued by "The Ghost Map" by Steven Johnson (maybe it's just Steve Johnson?), which was a historical delve into the 1854 Cholera epidemic, but there were definitely parts that you have to skim past (repetition is useful when memorizing but less enjoyable in a for-fun book read) and the last section is a sudden shift into modern cities and feels really unrelated. You can just skip the last 30 pages or so.
But hearing about the detective work at the time, to trace down what was causing the epidemic, and fighting the prevalent mindset that epidemics even HAD "causes" (as opposed to everything being "God's Will" and no science could affect it), well that was all really interesting!

On practical anatomy, "Trail Guide to the Body" is a super useful little reference book, especially if you ever want to learn how to give targeted massages and the like.

There's an advanced chemistry textbook I found well-written enough for easy comprehension but I'll have to look up the title when I get home, because I don't remember it off-hand and I'm just on lunch break at work right now.
Wait that's not math or bio or medical. Nevermind.

Well, let me stop speculating and give you a chance to answer what you were looking for!

I always wanted to go back to school to learn another language, but I haven't yet.

I decided this week I am going to read (almost) every night! I think I might just be burnt out of this series and I'll read something before I start the last book. And I say almost because I'm going out to eat with my cousins tonight and they like to jabber for hours when I'm just itching to go home. They only work 2-3 days a week and have 4 kids each (yikes) so they take every opportunity to go out for hours on end.

I have my eyes on a book I picked up a couple weeks ago to read that I have no planned for this year, but hey, that's why it's a plan.. It is Daughter of the Moon Goddess by Sue Lynn Tan.