I am curious how far other people share my way of reading books in parallel.

What I mean is that typically I read several books alongside each other, maybe four or five at a time, of various sorts.

For example right now I've got on the go:

Blue Shoes and Happiness - one of the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency series by Alexandar McCall Smith

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens by GK Chesterton

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Emperor's New Mind by Roger Penrose

The idea is that each of the books works away in different ways, and the easier reading ones and, the easier reading sections, help push me through the others, and keep some momentum going. The trick is to be firm about switching from one to the other at the end of a chapter or section, even when I'm dying to keep on reading. And they clour each other in other ways as well.

And after while I quite often find thatt the books that started out as heavy going become the ones I have to tear myself away from.

So I'm wondering, is this a practice peculiar to me, or do other people do this as well?