A quandary I've been in for a while is that I never get around to any of the non-fiction I'd like to read. I prefer fiction so I always seem to go for that, but there's enough non-fiction I'd like to read and my fiction reading never allows me enough time for.
So I've got this system. Non-fiction will be read on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 17th, 19th, 23rd, 29th and 31st of the month. Only a maximum of eleven days per month, still have the majority of the time with fiction reading, but means non-fiction doesn't completely fall by the wayside. Also I'm fine with pausing one book to read another if one is fiction and one is non-fiction, I find they occupy different bits of my brain.
I've only started this regime over the last few weeks, but it's working so far.
by georgemillman
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why not just follow your mood?
Man people on this site are weird.
_starts factoring 20,250,927_
Current You ensuring that Future You isn’t a disappointment to Even More Future You
I’m often in a fiction book and a nonfiction book at the same time, and then I tend to read the fiction when I’m upstairs (mostly in bed) and the nonfiction downstairs (mostly at the table). Not because of any rule I made myself, but because its convenient and the bed-setting is more suitable for really getting into a story and the table-setting more for reading non-fiction where I don’t really mind getting interrupted.
If course in the end, you should read what you *want*, not what you *think you should*.
You read multiple books at a time?