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A friend gave me two books today: Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, and Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveler.

I'm gonna start with Auster, because I read City of Glass (the comic book) and loved it, so I'm dieing to read the other two stories in the book.
Right now I'm reading Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus, but I'm only twenty pages in. I read The Book of the New Sun last year, and loved Wolfe's style, so this should prove interesting.

Also, what's up with people and books anyway? I know people who keep all their books on the shelves, and don't even lend them. One of my friends keeps buying books, even though she doesn't have enough time to read them all (she works for a publishing house anyway, so her job is reading, reading, reading).
I like to lend my books to people, and sometimes don't really care if I get them back, once I've read them. And I've read everything that's on my shelves; they're all books I bought for myself (I still have an entire attic full of books at my parents' place, which I mostly haven't even touched).

So the drill goes like this: my friends give me books (sometimes I buy books I really want to read), a pile of three or four forms at my bedside, I finish them and give them back. I read mostly at night, because during the day I'm too busy writing, playing guitar, going out, or playing games, so I'm kind of a slow reader.

How do you guys go about your reading? Do you buy more books than you can read, or just one a month? Do you like to take your time reading them, or do you just skip through the pages? Do you listen to music while you're reading (I can't unless it's instrumental)?

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