I hear ya. I used to not be good at reading multiple books at once, and I would get weird feelings about one book that were actually meant to go along with the other book, and sometimes I would get the plots mixed up. It was funny. Now I'm better at it. I just don't read multiple books much now because I don't read all that much at all right now.
Re: Patience-smatience
Is the Chuck Palahniuk book any good?