When do you read fiction?

I equally like fiction and non-fiction, but I recently started to notice that I go through phases of when I choose to read on or the other. At the moment I tend to read fiction before going to sleep, and non-fiction (when not actually having to study it) during the day. But it hasn't always been so: I used to curl up with a good popular science book -- such as one by Dawkins -- or a history/archaeology study before shut-eye. At the moment it seems a little decadent to read fiction during the day unless I feel I'm on holiday. I'd be interested to hear of others' preferences, or maybe even indifference!

I like to read just before bed, or before I get up at weekends (actually, any time during the weekend when I haven't got anything else I need to be doing). This tends to be true regardless of whether it's fiction or non-fiction. However, I do have a stash of non-fiction books in my study, so I usually read a few pages while waiting for my laptop to boot up. I find non-fiction better for this than fiction since there's fewer problems with breaking up the flow or losing track of the plot.

I usually try to read only one book at a time, and before I looked I guessed that I'd read about four or five fiction to every non-fiction. I had a quick glance at my records and it seems to be much more variable than that, even if it might average out to about that level. Most of the non-fiction I read I find quite dry, and so I tend to read fiction to break up the monotony. I'd say that I tend to read fiction during the week and non-fiction at weekends. Sometimes a non-fiction book can be on the go for months.

My previous post ignored the fact that non-fiction comes in many forms, not least that it can be linear or non-linear: linear non-fiction has an argument, a thread, rather like fiction, and so is more suited to the sort of times when you might pick up a good novel -- bedtime, in a bath, on a journey or in a waiting-room -- whereas non-linear non-fiction tends to be the sort of think you dip into, magazine-like, such as Schott's Original Miscellany or The Dictionary of Imaginary Places.

Fiction reading I do mostly from paperbacks while on the move. I also read short fiction from print and Internet-published magazines before going to sleep. Non-fiction I read at work, for work. I have never found a method of reading non-fiction for pleasure - maybe when I retire I will.