Do you have any rhyme or reason to what you decide to read next?

I generally stick with an author, time period, genre until I feel satisfied and then move on to something very different. I read a lot of WWI-era books for a while, then was reading a lot of magical realism - Mo Yan, Gunter Grass, Marquez - and now I'm on a stretch of contemporary Japanese and Korean novels.

I've sort of just jumped around with no real focus my whole life, basically exploring whatever seems the most different or new or interesting.

How about you guys? Did you decide when you were three years old to read books in a particular order?