I read straight through, start to finish, and generally just one book at a time--or at the very most one fiction and one nonfiction at a time.
If a book is going slow or not keeping my attention, however, I'll often set it aside, usually for months (or longer), until I hit the right mood for that particular book. This probably happens one out every twenty or so books I start.
Every now and then I run into a book I'd hoped to like but don't (just really, really don't)--I have no qualms about walking away from those. This happens probably once out of every forty books or so. (Just judging but what I read and didn't read in 2010.)
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