I am reading a lot of books all at once. I don’t know if this is a good thing or bad thing. Here are the books I’m reading currently:

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write by Sarah Ruhl

Kothar of the Magic Sword! by Gardner F. Fox (yes, the exclamation point is part of the title)

The Freelancer’s Survival Guide by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

On Lying in Bed and Other Essays by G.K. Chesterton

Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay by Andrew Horton (this is a re-read; read this one in college many eons ago)

Unfinished Tales by J.R.R. Tolkien

Heart of Stone by Ben Galley (I figured I needed to read more current fantasy from independent authors, and this one looked good)

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And now I’m thinking about picking up another book, The Sleeping Dragon by Joel Rosenberg, as part of my research on portal fantasies that use role-playing games as the portal into another world. Also, I want to start reading Oathbringer and get back into Stormlight Archives.

Is this too much? Why am I reading so many different things at once? Is my inability to focus on one book at a time a symptom of my internet-brain, where I can’t get immersed in one text for an extended period of time? Is this a problem, or should I just go with it and not worry?