books split over the new year

Telofy Great, here we go! :-D Jan 1, 2010

ruzuzu I think split trilogies are okay, telofy. If you do make the list, I'd add Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer and À rebours (or Against Nature) by Joris-Karl Huysmans. Jan 1, 2010

Telofy I was just wondering, what if one manages to finish the first book of a trilogy before midnight (waiting with the second until the next day)?

Oh right, what about that list? Anyone interested?
I’m only going to have one, perhaps two, split books. Jan 1, 2010

dontcry I just started a book last night with the intention of finishing it before school starts on Monday. I doubt that I'll finish it before midnight tonight - unless I read non-stop today (I wish...). I'll make a point to note how I feel after the ball drops. Dec 31, 2009

Telofy Hmm. Anyone interested in an open list for split books? Dec 31, 2009

PossibleUnderscore Uh...well...about that... I haven't started any of my new books, but started one of my old ones instead. However, because I've already read it, I've stopped. (I don't mind half-reading a book if I have read the complete story before, especially numerous times. It's all complete in my mind.) You see, I can't bear the thought of, firstly, starting one of my new books and having it split and secondly, boring myself out of my brains reading a book I know back to front.
Dec 31, 2009

ruzuzu How's the book-reading going, PossibleUnderscore? (I hate being stuck in the middle of a book--regardless of the time of year.) Dec 31, 2009

hernesheir Partially-read books, year-end/beginning notwithstanding litter my nightstand, since I have no such temporal boundaries. Books live on/beside/under my bed; occupy my "day bag" that daily hauls everything to work and back again; haunt my work desk; show up in my gym bag; and are given away to friends seeking reading gems. One dare not give away or share one's Kindle if one owns one. I do not, and cringe at the thought. Dec 31, 2009

seanahan I never give any thought to the boundaries of my book reading. I rarely ever take more than a week to read a book, so it probably does come up that often. I think I read Cryptonomicon across New Year's last year. Dec 31, 2009

PossibleUnderscore Ah..yes, I suppose I should. I try, I really do...
I'm going to start a book today, one that I won't possibly finish by December 31 and I'll see how I go.
:-) Dec 28, 2009

dontcry PU, because I often work on publications/promotions that are prepared many months in advance of their actual release date, I'm usually a good 6 months ahead of the times. I've been known to put Christmas music on and turn the a/c way down in July to get in the 'mood' to write for the up-coming season... It's all just a state of mind, dude. Flex it! Dec 28, 2009

PossibleUnderscore Maybe it's because my year is a straight vertical line of coloured circles and so when December-January hits, I have to travel up a whole years worth of space and I don't like having a book split over that.
(How on Earth do you wake up one day in the middle of the year and suddenly think it's 2010? Talent, my friend. You have some talent. ;-) ) Dec 28, 2009

Telofy I was about to aver that at least the stories from the fiction fraction haven’t ceased to be pretty prolific in sporting each their own teensy time bubbles whose artificial temporal worlds look exquisitely eternal from our plane. Yet, how a reader receives and reinterprets written representations changes with her dispositional developments or manners of imagination. Here a fear of New Year would appear rather random since it weighs no more heavily than other days.
Also, this year, I took to mistaking it for 2010 since August. Dec 27, 2009

PossibleUnderscore Yay yarb! I knew there had to be someone else out there. Dec 27, 2009

yarb I understand how you feel, PU, but I don't feel like that myself, and I feel that anyone who does is a bit odd, which of course is an admirable thing to be. Dec 27, 2009

dontcry Sorry, no. My books have always been a place for me to go to escape from day-to-day realities of time and place. Dec 27, 2009

PossibleUnderscore Yes, and I am positive that there must be someone who shares my sentiments.

Anyone? Dec 27, 2009

dontcry Hmmm... Seriously? Dec 27, 2009

PossibleUnderscore When reading a book, I cannot read it from the end of December into the New Year. I can't read it over the transition of the years. I feel it tears the book in two so that it is, effectively, hanging in oblivion, not having been read in either time. To me, it's a disorder that must be avoided at ALL costs. Dec 27, 2009