Why Are These Books Still Here?
Why are these books still here on my "currently reading" list?
Some of them have been there for quite awhile, like Rama II, which I haven't touched since finishing page 56 way back in March 2015.
I've read that book before, however, so it's not too bad. That's no excuse for The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, which I've been reading since December 2014.
I find the book to be quite detailed, and often quite boring, so there it's sat, on the "currently reading" shelf.
Oftentimes these books make us feel bad, staring at us there on our Goodreads homepage, wondering why we've abandoned them.
Perhaps we should just do away with them and click "read" and maybe even write a short review.
I haven't gotten to that point on these two yet, however, so stare at me they will.
Some of them have been there for quite awhile, like Rama II, which I haven't touched since finishing page 56 way back in March 2015.
I've read that book before, however, so it's not too bad. That's no excuse for The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, which I've been reading since December 2014.
I find the book to be quite detailed, and often quite boring, so there it's sat, on the "currently reading" shelf.
Oftentimes these books make us feel bad, staring at us there on our Goodreads homepage, wondering why we've abandoned them.
Perhaps we should just do away with them and click "read" and maybe even write a short review.
I haven't gotten to that point on these two yet, however, so stare at me they will.
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Good points. I'm reminded of when I read War and Peace, which is about 1450 pages or so. I read at least 700 pages of that sitting on a plane going to China. When you have to read, you will. Maybe I should shy away from my policy of finishing every book.
I used to do that. Then I realised that I'm not getting any younger, and if I spend my time reading books I don't enjoy, I might die before I get through all the good ones... It helped to realise that I can read about 75-100 books a year. Multiply that by average lifespan, and ohmygodnotenoughtimetoreadallthebooks!
But yeah, I've had a couple that have hung on for ages. One I did just abandon, because getting through it was so painful.
Sometimes, you just have to bite the bullet and either read it or ditch it!