Each year, I find myself reading different short works for various reasons. Often for it's a reading prompt asking for a book of certain number of pages, such as under 250 pages, or any other number. Some short books I tend to read are nonfiction ones on various subjects. This comes in handy when I have nonfiction prompts on subjects I don't want to read a long book on. This year I read a book on gardening from food scraps, to fulfill two prompts on gardens. This I read quickly at the library, since it was short. I often read short works this way to reduce the number of books I take out each time. Same is often true of picture books, since they are fairly short. Picture books I tend to especially read when it comes to holidays. Though I have so far read at least two this year.
Some works that seem short, however, require taking out to read. Poetry collections and plays often fit this description for me. Depending on the length, some poetry collections can be read in one setting. I more often check out poetry books rather than attempt to read through them quickly at the library. Since the Poetry challenge I used to do every year was discontinued about two years ago, my reading of poetry has gotten slim, but I have several I've already read this year.
When it comes to reading plays, these I definitely need to check out to read. Again, depending on the length, plays can take me one or two days to read. This is one genre I only seem to read once a year, as the summer challenge at Messy Middle tends to have plays as a prompts.
When it comes to reading e-books and audiobooks, I try to find short ones, to spend as little time as possible on reading electronically. I still prefer physical books :)
Some middle grade books and graphic novels tend to be short, and depending on the number of the pages, I can take only one day on these. But these can also take two days, depending on what time of day I begin reading the books. If I start such a book late in the day, it most often will take two days.
How many short works to do tend to read a year? What formats mentioned do you read more of?
6 comments:
I read several children's novels a year. There are some great children's books out there and they tend to be shorter. I worked in a library for many years and may I suggest that the books you read in the library that you check them out and then you can return them before you leave. That helps with statistics and can affect funding.
Poetry collections are often best enjoyed in short doses, like one or two poems at a time.
I love shorter books. Long books usually make me loose attention unless they're written by a favorite author. I do try longer books from time to time and will keep reading if I think it's really good.
I like short books other than ones written by my favorite authors. If I read a short book and really enjoy it I'l try a longer book by the author.
'Feed your fiction addiction'. I like it!
I'm with you when it comes to shorter non-fiction books. Well I don't mind longer ones, but sometimes shorter fiction books just don't have enough depth. This was an interesting post.
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