Oh... the things I could say!
First, I also need to have *just* the right book, which is why I tend read several at once. I have a "travel" book for commuting, because I need to be able to start and stop it a lot. I have a "bedtime" book, because I don't want to have to think too hard right before I go to sleep. I save "heavier" reading for when I can spend 3 hours at once just absorbed in it, etc.
Second, I think it's different with library books, because you know when you take it out that you're going to want to read it soon, so the agonizing will take place for me at the library or bookstore, but once it gets into my house I know I want to read it.
Third, I have no problem putting down a book for a while. I mean, I hate when a book is so crappy that I refuse to finish it, that feels like such wasted time! But sometimes there's a book that I know I want to read, but it's too dense to get through in one blow. (
Pickwick Papers, I'm looking at you!) So, I just put it down for a while, and read something else knowing I can return to it later.
Fourth... I love books! If I could marry them, I would!
) I am almost always on the mark . . . but I think I went awry last time. I started reading Strapped, but I'm just not in the mood for it right now. So, I'm onto Lakota Woman - I love memoirs . . . cuz you can't argue with a person's individual story. (Unless you're Oprah and you're reading James Frey 
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