Reader Problems Tag

1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide what to read next?
Mood, feeling. I pick what I want to read next, I don't really think about it too much. Well, I do want to read the books I haven't read that I own before moving to my flatmate's bookshelf... I also have the tbr jar, from which I read one book every month. The books in the jar are books I wouldn't maybe read at all, but that I own. I want to read more different stuff, so the tbr jar is really helping me with that.
2. You’re halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you quit or are you committed?
I usually try my hardest to not quit. I've only ever stopped reading a few books in my life, because I couldn't get into the story and it was taking me so long to read them that I began to forget what had happened in the beginning. Not loving a book is not a problem for me, I think you have to sometimes read bad books as well as good and great books.
3. The end of the year is coming and you’re so close, but so far away on your Goodreads reading challenge. Do you try to catch up and how?
I make my challenges easy. I'd much rather win the challenge many months before the end of the year, because I stress about stuff a lot anyway without the added stress from reading "enough".
4. The covers of a series you love do. not. match. How do you cope?
I don't care. Most of my series don't have matching books, and I don't give a shit. I'll be writing more about this sometime soon, because a lot of people get crazy over this stuff and I just don't care.
5. Every one and their mother loves a book you really don’t like. Who do you bond with over shared feelings?
I don't, really. I move on. I rate it, maybe review it, and move on. Sometimes I do complain to my friends, but not that much I think...
6. You’re reading a book and you are about to start crying in public. How do you deal?
I just realized I don't really read in public. Probably because I get motion sickness from just reading the signs by the road when in a car, so I really can't read anywhere that moves. Car, bus, train, nope. And at school our breaks were never really that long... I think I'd just let it go, or stop reading and get back to the book when I get home. I don't know, really.
7. A sequel of a book you loved just came out, but you've forgotten a lot from the prior novel. Will you re-read the book? Skip the sequel? Try to find a synopsis on Goodreads? Cry in frustration?!?!?!?
Reread. If I even remotely liked the book, I'll reread. I love rereading books. (Last summer I read the five previous books of the Mortal Instruments series just because I couldn't remember what had happenend in books four and five, before reading the last book in the series. So yeah, reread.)
8. You do not want anyone. ANYONE. borrowing your books. How do you politely tell people nope when they ask?
I'm kind of okay with people borrowing my books, if they have been good to them in the past. And like, my flatmate lives with me, so the books never even have to leave the apartment. My mother borrowed one without really asking, but, like, she's my mother. Half-strangers, on the other hand... No. You have to be a close friend. And preferably read the book without taking it with you because I can never be sure how you treat it if you take it away with you. So, I'm weird with this one. Close friends okay, others... not so much. The biggest problem I have is that I can't be sure to get the book back, not necessarily the condition of the book. (Books are supposed to look read, is what I think.)
9. Reading ADD. You've picked up and put down 5 books in the last month. How do you get over your reading slump?
I don't even get that far. If I don't feel like reading, I don't read. I trust that my want to read will come back eventually, maybe I get a new book I'm excited about and read that, and that's it, maybe someone really liked a book I have on my shelf, I don't really know. I just take a break, there's no use in trying to force myself to read. Reading is supposed to be fun, guys!
10. There are so many new books coming out that you’re dying to read! How many do you actually buy?
Well. I live in Finland. We don't get all the books I see people on booktube getting excited about, and I don't really ever follow the new releases. I discover new books by seeing reviews and wanting to read them based on that, and then I have to order a lot of them online if I want to read them, because I like to read books in English if they were originally written in English. New Finnish books I find when they are already published and sitting on the shelves in my local bookstore when I go there.
11. After you've bought the new books you can’t wait to get to, how long do they sit on your shelf before you get to them?
If I'm really excited about a book, I want to read is as soon as possible. I might start them right away, I might just wait until I've finished some book I'm reading first. I don't have trouble reading multiple books at once, so if I'm really really excited to read a book I just bought, I will read it.

This tag was started over here, and it was really fun to do.