How soon after you finish a book do you begin a new one?
How soon after you finish a book do you begin a new one?
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I start a new one before I finish. I just start as many as I want at the same time lol
Right away!
It depends on the book I finished. Sometimes one is so great, I have to savor it a few days before moving on.
Agree!
Immediately!
Minutes
It really depends on the book. Some characters are like really good wine–I want to sit with them for a bit.
It depends on the book. Sometimes, if a book is really good or it has left an “Oh wow I will never read a book that good again” feeling, I have to wait a day or 2. Sometimes I can dive right into a new book, especially if it’s a book I am anticipating.
If I finish it late at night, I pick out the next one to read and might not start it until the next morning. I always have a book I am reading.
I do that as well. I almost always finish a book at night. I try to
Immediately!!
For me, if the book I finish is really good I have a difficult time moving on. Takes me at least a day to recover!
I’m not a very fast reader but I also like to read two books at the same time! I’m currently reading two books, one in English and the other in Portuguese! I take a small break before I start on a new one! ?
The better the book, the harder it is to like the next one. I have to find easy reads in between good ones but I go straight from one book to another. No in between time.
Yes! I just finished The Last Mrs. Parrish and loved it so much it was hard to start another !!
@Julie Ha! I hated about 5 books after The Nightingale. Nothing compared. Ha!
Always
next evening!
I always have another book to start usually the day I finish. When I am really touched by the book sometimes I have to wait a day or two just to process my reaction.
Same here!
Straightaway, although I usually pick out a book of a different genre so my brain doesn’t get mixed up….
As soon as I can.
I usually have another one picked out but might not always start it immediately.
I’m usually reading a few at a time lol! But sometimes I need time to recover and procrastinate a new book
Right away or the next day if I finish at night
Immediately
Right away. So many books, so little time!
So true and I keep adding books to my 2 read list
As quickly as possible
Immediately
Right away
Right after unless I finished the book way past my bed time then it waits until next day
Immediately.
Immediately ?
Immediately.
ASAP
As soon as I pick the next one off the stacks!
With in the day.
Usually immediately
If I have time, ASAP…like within minutes.
Depends on the time. During the day, I pick up another. Bedtime, I wait until the next day
Lol before I have have finished the first one!
I usually like to wait a day so I can absorb the first book. But it depends on what time of day I finish it
Immediately or
Next morning if I’ve stayed up to finish one
Right away, within minutes.
Usually right away. However, there have been times when the book I just finished was so good, so completely engrossing, that I need a day or two before jumping in to another book.
Depends on the book I finish and how many books I am reading at the time.
That depends on the book. I’ve spent days in book grief, unable to leave the story behind and begin a new one. I usually read short stories or poetry then. But sometimes I just have to re-read the story I just finished. I actually love when that happens!
Nancy I do the same. So often I want to call the author and discuss certain chapters
@Mary, some authors have websites we’re you can do that.
@Nancy I didn’t know that. OMG
Right away unless it was a really good book then I may need to let myself savor the book
At least the same day.
Sometimes I wait 2 mins
I love your comment of “book grief “
2 seconds later XD
I close the cover on one and open the next one!!!
Immediate
Immediately, if not sooner! ?
If it was a really good book I feel like I have to savor it for a day.
Immediately
Immediately. I love standing in front of my bookshelf, deciding which one to pick up next 🙂
Me2
@Francesca LOL – the power, right 🙂
@Hannah yup?
Immediately
Almost immediately
Immediately. Lol. Or at least the very next day.
Right away
Depends…sometimes I need time to mourn. Lol
Right?
Agree
It depends, sometimes right away sometimes The next day
Depends on the book. Sometimes I have to digest it for a couple of days before moving on.
Uh, immediately.
Sometimes I need a bit of time….half a day or so.
Usually right away
As soon as possible
i usually h ave a few on the go at the same time so …
Right away!
Right away!
Usually right away 🙂 Unless I am reading into the wee hours of the morning, and then I have to get a little sleep so that my book hangover is not to bad
Right away. Except during the holidays. Live watching Hallmark regular and movies & mysteries
OMG!!!! Me2 with the Hallmark movies. As we speak watching Christmas Hallmark movies ( DVR) which began airing after Thanksgiving!
Me too!
I need to wait until at least the next day … just a quirk of mine.
Immediately ?
Immediately if not sooner! Unless it’s a real life changer. Then I ponder awhile.
immediately
It depends on the book I just finished. Sometimes I like to think it about for a few days. ?
Me, too. There are books that just stay with you for a while. After I read The Nightingale I could not get into my next book. Took me a couple of days to get back in the groove
I just finished The Nightingale. It was the book I was thinking about when I posted my comment. We think alike!
Normally right After
Depends. Sometimes I have to take a couple of days of book-ending mourning. Sometimes it’s as quick as my hand can reach for the next book.
Same here!
Immediately!
Right away!
Before it’s done, ?
Yes!
Usually right away – or at the very least I pick my next read for when I have time. I usually end up finishing a book before bed or during a lunch break so I have other things I need to do
Immediately. I can’t not be reading something
Ditto
Immediately
Pretty much immediately…unless it’s after 2 am
This!
Immediately!
Immediately
Right away. I can’t just not read.
Immediately!
A day at the most.
Same here!
Immediately
Immediately. I have a bad amazon habit ??
ASAP
Usually, about a day. Lately, it takes me a few tries to find the next one.
Straight away
Immediately. There is always a book in my TBR pile waiting to be read.
Right away,,
Next day
Immediately. I usually have two or three waiting in the wings to be read. Its a toss up what gets read next.
Immediately! 😉
If it’s after midnight, I wait until the next day! lol Before midnight, I’d start another one yet that evening.
the next day!
Usually the next but depending on the time of day
The next day
Or the same day, depending in the time.
The next day since sometimes the book I just finished reading was so deep I have to get it out of my head but even if it isn’t heavy, I need a day to clear my mind.
I overlap lol
I usually have several going at once.
Right away. Actually, I often have two or three books being read simultaneously.
Immediately
Minutes! Lol! Unless I stayed up late to finish and then when I wake up.
A day or two
Immediately.And I make myself read to page 20
It depends on the book for me. Sometimes I need a break to let that book soak in 😉
I’m mediately
I start asap
Straight away
I usually have one or two more in the works by the time I finish one.
Generally right away especially if it’s a series
usually right away but, with some books, I have to wait a couple hours to process the fact that the story is over.
Right away
A couple hours or longer…it depends on my mood, my book hangover, etc…lol!
Right then!
Plenty on my library queue or on my nightstand to begin a new book ?
ASAP….I feel off w/out a book, but sometimes I use the hiatus to read The New Yorker
Immediately
Immediately, of course!
Soon as I get another cup of coffee
Next day
Pretty quickly unless I have to decompress after it.
Right away
Sometimes right away or the next day… depends on how the book let me feeling and how much I had read that day!
Before the first one is presumed finished.
Immediately.
ASAP
Within minutes, usually. Hate being without reading material!! But I find that if a book was really good or heart-wrenching it might take me a day or two before I find another one I can read.
Usually right away.
How quickly can you download a new one?
It depends on timing, mood and what’s up next
Soon after I finish
Sometimes immediately and sometimes I wait. Book hangovers are awful lol
Immediately.
Love to read, so immediately.
Most of the time, yes. Sometimes I need a minute.
Same
Minutes!
immediately.
Usually right away.
right away….
Usually right away – unless I need a minute to decompress, sometimes the story or characters linger a minute and I can’t move right on
Pretty quick!
Right after!
I always have one waiting and I begin it usually right away!
30 seconds i’d say!
Immediately.
Always one waiting, always the same say unless it is late evening.
About 15 minutes. I cannot NOT have a book in progress, even if I’m about to turn out the light. I have to at least crack open a new one and read the first page or two.
No, I just can’t! I think back to the book I finished and call it a grieving process!!
Definitely immediately! In fact, when I start the last chapter, I’m thinking, “what can I read next”!
I do!
Right away! If it’s a series and I like it, I’ll buy the next one on my Kindle!
Depends on how the last book affected me.
Oh wait, yea. This too. If I have a book hangover, I might need a day or two.
Immediately.
right away, I have too many to wait,lol
Usually immediately. I have been known to read multiple books at once.
right away
Reading? One day. Writing? I try to go a month but usually have to start something within three weeks or I start turning into Martha Stewart. 🙂
Right then
I always have two or three books that I currently read so this is never a problem. 😉
ASAP
Immediately
It depends on how much emotion it took away. Sometimes it may take a day to “recover “. ?
I know the feeling!
If I’m reading a series (which I prefer), then I start it immediately. If it’s a stand alone, I browse my NYPL wishlist and my Kindle content.
For me, it depends if I have a book hangover. That happens when a book was just too good. Otherwise, right away.
Right away
Most times I need to grieve the characters in the finished book for a day or two before beginning another!
Same day!
Asap
Immediately if it is early enough.
The next day I like to give myself a little time to reflect…unless it’s a series then asap lol
Right away
Right away unless I need time to “digest”.
Right away. I can’t seem to go without reading.
Right away
A day or two. But I usually have a few going at once.
ASAP
Same day.
I’m always reading more than one book, so no down time for me!
RIGHT AWAY.
Right away
Immediately ?♀️?✅
Before the finished one makes it to the bookshelf 😉
Yes!! Guilty
I wait a few days to “digest” the one I just finished.
Immediately!
Immediately
Asap
Immediately
Right away!
Immediately