What kind of reader are you? A book abandoner? The bookophile? The Atlantic has a diagnostic guide.
Blogger Jen Doll quotes New Yorker writer Mark O’Connell, who confesses to his own reading habits. “’ll be reading a novel and thoroughly enjoying it. Then I’ll be in a bookshop and I’ll see something I’ve been anticipating, and I’ll buy it. I’ll start reading the new book on the bus home that evening, and that will be the end of the original affair. I’m certainly invested in the relationship with the book that I’m currently reading, but I can’t help myself from pursuing whatever new interest happens to turn my head. Perhaps that’s just a tortuous way of admitting to being a pathetic serial book-adulterer who’ll chase after anything in a dust jacket.”
