Book Blogger Hop: Do You Read Many Books At Once?

I’m going to start joining in with the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer. I’ve made my own image from a stock photo (credit: Anna Shvets) to avoid adding images created via generative AI to my blog. Feel free to use it too if you would like! This week’s prompt is about dual-wielding books: Do you read one book at a time, or juggle a few at once? I am quite possibly incapable of reading just one book at once! I have a tendency to get fidgety, though this happens mostly with fiction: I get too antsy about how the story is going to turn out, and then instead of finding out, I get hung up on it. Sometimes the best thing to do in that case is just to switch to something else for a bit. I’d say three to five books at once is the sweet spot for me; each of them gets attention, but there’s plenty of variety. Overall, I think it works best when I jump between quite different books — like, one historical non-fiction, one popular science, one fantasy, and one mystery, or…