finish books that i start

So since I started my current job (October 2006), i’ve been reading quite a bit. I actually read each book all the way through and I’ve read a lot of books (or at least a lot for me).

The not finishing the books I read has two different reasons:
I either like the book very much and I don’t want it to finish, or the books bores me and I just lose my interest in it.

There are also some books that I am not prepared to read yet, like Napoleon Hill – Think and grow rich. It says you have to be in the “I’m willing to do whatever it takes to make this happen” state of mind, and that doesn’t always happen.

But what the hell. I can do this!

my first college boyfriend loved annie proulx and recommended her books enthusiastically. after we broke up (spring 05) i bought a second hand copy of the shipping news. this fall (fall 07) i started it. and today, at last, i finished it.

finally! not sure i actually liked it, though.

now i’m just working on mr sammler’s planet and jonathan strange. i’ll wait to start “the waves” until i finish one of those. maybe.

nothing like a nice terry pratchett book to make you feel accomplished. it takes me about 3 days to get through them, assuming i don’t blow through them cover to cover in one sitting.

finished: harry potter 7, the last temptation of christ
started: mr. sammler’s planet

i also briefly picked up a book in ancient greek (which i can read but dont understand) and one on statistics (ditto) but I don’t think those count. ;-)

currently in progress:
-last temptation (“main” book at the moment)
-the shipping news (been working on it for months)
-consolation of philosophy (started last night on a whim)
-jonathan strange (completely forgotten about until noticing it this morning)

the list has been piling up without my noticing it! ack! discipline is the key at this point – no more new books unless they’re short stories!

right now im in the middle of “the last temptation of christ” and it’s SO GOOD! i don’t think i’m going to have any trouble finishing this one ;-)

finished: “fun home”, alison bechdel’s memoir of her childhood. awesome!
started, will finish: “the stone diaries”
started, will (hopefully) not finish: “mr darcy takes a wife”, a needlessly glorified “sequel” to pride and prejudice. THIS DOES NOT BELONG TO ME i swear it was just sitting around and i couldn’t help myself! but seriously, had i known that i could write pervy fanfic and get it published i’d never have bothered with college :-p

I thought this meant books you WRITE

haha wow i feel incredibly ignorant.
well i can’t finish the books I begin.
I’ve only ever finished one, None Yet.

I’ve been sitting and reading till the end. For books I’m not into sometimes I skip a few pages or chapters, but nevertheless I finish the books.