Animezing Life

Do you mostly read fiction or non-fiction? Fiction. Non-fiction tends to lose me, unfortunately. My brain doesn't want to focus on it for long.

Is reading for pleasure part of your daily routine? If so, how much time a day do you spend on reading? Not really a daily routine thing. I read when I feel like it, and when I have something pulling my attention in that direction. It tends to be an "as I want to" thing, like a lot of the stuff I do that isn't household maintenance.

Do you often binge books? When I've got something I'm enjoying a lot? Yes! Early in a book, it's easy enough to go, "Oh, just a chapter" and then set it down again, but once I pass a certain point, I tend to sit with it every moment I can until I finish it.

Describe your average reading session 😁(Do you have a special spot where you get comfortable/is it a hard copy or an e-book/is it day or night etc.) Usually physical books (e-books are fanfic only for me), and usually curled up in a comfy seat somewhere. Most often my desk chair, but sometimes one end of the couch. If my husband's out of town, then sprawled across our bed. Time of day doesn't matter so long as I have a spot of free time, but I've learned to be careful not to start the last third of a book (especially a Brandon Sanderson book) past a certain hour of the evening or I will literally be up all night plowing through what my husband and I dubbed the "Brandon Avalanche."

Do you have a schedule or do you read when you feel like reading? When I feel like it. Schedules feel counter-intuitive to me getting into a book.

Have you ever struggled with reading (e.g. issues with concentration/retaining information, learning disabilities etc.) and how did you manage to overcome it? The struggle is focusing on other things when a book has my attention. I might not hear someone calling for me unless they're right next to me, and I will get so into a book I will lose track of time.

Can you read multiple books at once? Outside of ongoing fanfics, it's one narrative at a time for me, thanks. (And with the fics, I still need to backtrack and remind myself what a given narrative was when a new chapter drops.)

If you're multilingual, do you intentionally choose to regularly read books in your target language(s) to maintain language proficiency? Is it a habit too, or is it a matter of the book's original language? Not applicable. While I did study three languages other than English between high school and college, none of them are to a level of proficiency that I could read a short story comfortably, nevermind a whole book.

How do you usually choose books for your to-read list? Vibes. If I'm at a bookstore looking for something new, I'll find covers that look interesting and then read the blurbs. Online, I might check out reviews. I also get recommendations from friends and my book-loving kids.

Do you keep track of the books you've read/plan to read? Only the ones I'm planning to read, but it's a fairly short list, and most of the tracking is "yep, the books I'm going to read are sitting right there."

Do you consider reading manga/comics "reading"? Yes, on a technicality, but it's like...the popcorn or candy of reading, to me. Valid, yes, especially as entertainment, but it's not the same thing as reading a novel.

Do you often find yourself in a reading slump? How long did your ultimate slump take? It comes and goes in waves. I have a lot of other things that draw on my attention as well, both responsibilities but also other creative/entertainment pursuits, and reading doesn't always win against those, and then I'm in a reading slump. I don't know how long the longest took, but sometimes I can go a few months before I realize "oh, I haven't actually read any fiction in a while, I should remedy that."

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