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Another go....

Last night after stubbing my toe yet again realised that maybe I have too many books on the go. Does anyone else have the same problem or do you only read 1 book at a time.
What type of material do you find helps you to sleep?

I have at present 8 sailing related books, 4 fiction, 1 biography, 1 book on grammer, 2 travel books

Is there anyone else as bad????

JaneK

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The area on the bedside table, floor space within reach and indeed the area under the bed are a memorial to all the books which are being read, have been read or are being re-read. Probably in the region of 20 at the moment. Half of these will be sailing and the like, the rest are either technical work stuff or fiction.

Am I not getting out enough and not drinking enough beer?

Hmm, Jeff.

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Re: When I try to read more than one....

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Fraid so, the floor at the side of my bed often looks like a ransacked WHS branch, with books and mags strewn about. Only reading one at the mo. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (missed out on it first time around). Oh sorry plus YM (July) and a copy of Private Eye.

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I'm mostly a one at a time type of person. Can occasionally do a non-fiction simultaneously with a fiction, but I usually just try to alternate.

I'm sure you did it deliberately just to see if anyone was awake, but I think I would get rid of your book on grammer, and get one on spelling instead! That made me smile.

Nickel

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Not quite as bad

Only 3 on the go at the moment:

- Fatal Storm (the story of the Sydney to Hobart Race, Australia's equivalent of the 1979 Fastnet. Scary..........)

- Third volume of the Alan Clarke diaries (somehow irresistable, in spite of my disapproval of almost everything that he stood for)

- Our Mutual Friend. Charles Dickens' greatest book. Must be about the 10th time I've read it. Vaguely boaty, because it is permeated by the Thames.

The Dickens has great toe stubbing potential as it's 1300 pages long, but the others are lesser works and can be idly tossed aside, even at 3 in the morning.

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when an emergency starts, how will you remember whether the solution you are thinking about is fact or fiction ?

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Material to sleep as follows: a bed after working from 4am until 8pm.

Reading: used to read like a maniac, one book at the time, get so involved and read for up to 20 hours per day or more, not working until book is finished. Then eyes square, could hardly see anymore, bum sore, back sore, knees stiff and croaking, collapse for some dead like sleep. Then getting up feeling guilty for not working for a day or two, trying to catch up.
presently no time for reading. The boat - the boat - the boat.


Technical books are always at hand, I dont read them, these are references and opened frequently as need dictates.

What I do with a new technical book, I scan it with my eyes (not electronically) basically paging trough and marking paragraphs that contain numbers (such as measurements, that is usually the important part and easy to spot) Takes me about 45 min under full concentration to scan a book of 200 pages. Then I have to lie down for 30 min totally exhausted, but I know roughly where I find what.

I have a weird sleeping pattern, I actively think during the night, do calculations while I sleep and design things. Lots of arguments in the past, wife said I am snoring, I say nonsense, I have been thinking and I am awake. Anybody else have this problem?

Not important, learned to live with it, or - I dont know better.

regards ongolo



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Re: Not quite as bad

>>> Third volume of the Alan Clarke diaries (somehow irresistable, in spite of my disapproval of almost everything that he stood for)

I know what you mean. The books are utterly compulsive when he's in the Commons (especially his account of the fall of Thatcher). When he's out of the Commons moaning about pretty much everything they're drab.

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Free at Last - Tony Benn Diaries
Biography of Eric Shipton
Beyond Adventure - Colin Mortlock
YM's strewn about
2 Student Dissertations on a rolling programme basis.

Dear Heart has just installed a cupboard for me so I can put my books in there - apparently she fell off my book and magazine mountain whilst changing the bed.

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Re: Not anymore

I'm the opposite: am reading three - Devil's Gold by Ted Falcon-Barker (story with a Kingfisher 30 as a character!), The Stand by Stephen King and The Poisonwood Bible by some American goil, can't remember her name - but only writing the one.

Maybe we should swap for a week, and see if we fare better with the other's approach..?!

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someone said that these days in buying books - that we kid ourselves that in fact we're buying the time to read them.. almost impossible on land..

But at sea - in the wake of Master and Commander film am revisiting the Patrick O'Brian books.

very good is the new Cook bio - The Trial of the Cannibal Dog
by Anne Salmond



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