How Do You Read?

I don't know about the rest of you, but I'm typically reading a couple books at once at any given time. Right now I'm reading:

THE SHADOW YEAR by Jeffrey Ford
MEAT by Joseph D'Lacey
THE AUDACITY OF HOPE by Barack Obama
STRANGE TOYS by Patricia Geary

And in the past five days I've finished MAKE LOVE NOT WAR by David Allyn and SHINJUKU SHARK by Arimasa Osawa. At one point I was reading all six of those books. The current four I've just started. That is to say, I'm not very far into the book, as opposed to I just pulled the book out and started reading it recently.

Now, in some ways I was reluctant to list the books I'm reading, as I don't feel like I'm really reading any of them at the moment. For me, I need to be at least 100 pages into a book before I really feel like I'm reading it. At the moment, I'm not 100 pages into any of the books I'm reading.

For some reason, once I get past that 100 page mark, I feel like I'm really into the book. I remember what's going on every time I pick it up, I don't need to skim back a few pages to catch myself up on which book this is, and I'm usually sucked into the story to want to keep going.

Sometimes I don't get to that 100 page mark. Sometimes that mark comes much later. Rarely, it comes sooner than that. And, I try to not have more than five books in which I'm past the 100 page mark. That's just too much to try and handle.

However, until I start getting some books at the 100 page mark, I will keep adding more and more new books. I have the following books queued up: BLOOD ENGINES by T. A. Pratt, THE BAUM PLAN FOR INDEPENDENCE by John Kessel, THROUGH A GLASS, DARKLY by Bill Hussey, and SHARP TEETH by Toby Barlow (I think there are others, like A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES, but I'd have to look at the my to-read stack to be sure). Any of these books could suddenly get added to my currently reading stack.

How about you?