I love to read multiple books at the same time. I prefer to have at least one fiction and one non-fiction book on totally different subjects so that it is not too confusing. Multi-Booking In Sara Nelson’s wonderful book So Many Books, So Little Time: A Year of Passionate Reading, she calls reading two books at the same time “double-booking”. This is nothing new for me. I call it Multi-Booking. Sometimes I am so eager to read every book ever written that I am reading too many books at the same time. Right now I am reading at least four books. One for the bathroom, two for the nightstand, and…

I Was Obsessed With The Alphabet Even as a very young child of 3 or 4, I always wanted to go over the alphabet with my mother. I had absolutely no interest in numbers (which is still true), but I loved letters. When I found out that they could form words, I was enthralled. A True Love Of Reading and Writing I never liked having my mother read books to me, but reading them myself. Reading and writing were easy for me. I was writing short stories and even novels from the first grade. Also in the first grade, my teacher had been tutoring other students in reading. I was…

Lunchtime The other day I was in the lunchroom at work. I took out my food from my lunch bag and then rummaged in the handbag for my ever-present Current Lunchtime Book. No book. Oh, no. I must have taken out my book last night when cleaning out the handbag and forgotten to put it back in! What to do? No Book To Read! I know that my book obsession has gotten out of control. I have books on the floor, bathroom, and in my bed. My car is so packed with books that I have dubbed it The Bookmobile. I scatter books when I walk. I always have several…