finish all the books I've started

I’m currently reading 3 books at once. Not one of them is one of the many books i’ve started and didn’t finish. O well :-\

I have a bad habit of starting a book and finding another that I like better and putting the first down. I have many half-finished books. I have to read those.

Jesus the Christ, Ballet Basics, Eat Well Lose Weight While Breastfeeding, and The Peacemaker (haven’t started it yet, but will soon).

I read The Nursing Mother’s Companion and The Five Love Languages.

I had a baby, so I started three more books: Your Baby’s First Year Week by Week, The Girlfriends’ Guide to the First Year, and The Nursing Mother’s Companion. I’m almost finished with the second one, and I’m well into the last one. I’m not going to count the first one in this goal, because I’m reading it week by week and not all at once. Oh, and I also started reading Ballet Basics. I’m going to go ahead and say the Girlfriends’ Guide is finished because I literally only have a few pages left. So now I have three books to finish: Jesus the Chris, Ballet Basics, and The Nursing Mother’s Companion.

I read tapworks, so just one more to go!

I finally finished Latter Days (having started over at the beginning after reading about halfway and forgetting what I had read). I also read Needful Things a while ago (which I mentioned in the last post), as well as the Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy. There were probably one or two others in there, but I don’t remember. Anyway, I also started reading a book on the Sanford Meisner approach to acting which I’m just about through with, and I’m also at the end of What to Expect when You’re Expecting. So I just need to read TapWorks and Jesus the Christ to complete this goal.

I just don’t care so much anymore. If I wasn’t interested enough to finish them when I was reading them, why bother forcing myself to do it now?

Arg, I hate being really interested in a book, then picking another one up out of curiosity and becoming engrossed in that one. And, inevitably, forgetting about the initial book.

I have another goal to read 100 books in 2008, so I think I’m going to start over on some of these books. I will just finish What to Expect… which will be somewhat slow going because it’s split up into months and I don’t want to read ahead. The others I will start over: Latter Days, Jesus the Christ, and TapWorks. I also started Needful Things, which I’ll finish quickly, and I’ll probably read another book on pregnancy. Then I’ll be all caught up and can start reading new books!

I finished Who Would Join the Mormon Church and left it at home for my parents to read. So now I still have TapWorks (which I’m less interested in now that I don’t have a tap class), Latter Days, Jesus the Christ, and What to Expect… Although right now most of my reading time is focused on getting through the Old Testament, I will finish that by the end of the year, so next year I can read these books and get caught up.