I need to commit to finishing a book
I've been starting to read countless books and not finishing them. I feel this is different from starting a TV series and not finishing it, yet, because TV series were supposed to take years to complete, before the Age of Binging came along. I don't feel as bad about not yet having finished Euphoria or Outlander, but I feel bad about not having finished countless books I've started in the past few months.
Books were the original binging. You could sit down and read an entire book in a day, if you had nothing else to do. Unless it was one of those monster 800-page novels like Stephen King's original The Stand (I can't believe he added another 345 pages to it when he re-published it 12 years later).
For decades I've purchased more books than I've finished, but I feel this behavior has become much worse during Quarantine. Before I had my daily commute on which I'd often read while riding Metro. Now ... there's too many distractions all day long, all night long, all Internet long, I was thinking I need a week off from work and house AND Internet, during which I'd listen to music I already own and read books I already own.
Mainly I read on my laptop now, digital print media, but I could download the entire book onto the app and then turn off the Wi-Fi.
There are some books I love so much I want to savor them over time, but this is different, I've simply got too many open books, I want to pick one to commit to finishing. But then, which one?
Here's how it's gonna be. The next book I start or continue reading, I'm going to stick with until I finish. I'm not going to read anything else until I finish it. I'm not even going to read my daily newspapers or weekly/monthly magazines. So, choose wisely, Bug. Commit. Binge a book on purpose. Fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, just pick a goddess damned book and read the entire fucking thing.
Books were the original binging. You could sit down and read an entire book in a day, if you had nothing else to do. Unless it was one of those monster 800-page novels like Stephen King's original The Stand (I can't believe he added another 345 pages to it when he re-published it 12 years later).
For decades I've purchased more books than I've finished, but I feel this behavior has become much worse during Quarantine. Before I had my daily commute on which I'd often read while riding Metro. Now ... there's too many distractions all day long, all night long, all Internet long, I was thinking I need a week off from work and house AND Internet, during which I'd listen to music I already own and read books I already own.
Mainly I read on my laptop now, digital print media, but I could download the entire book onto the app and then turn off the Wi-Fi.
There are some books I love so much I want to savor them over time, but this is different, I've simply got too many open books, I want to pick one to commit to finishing. But then, which one?
Here's how it's gonna be. The next book I start or continue reading, I'm going to stick with until I finish. I'm not going to read anything else until I finish it. I'm not even going to read my daily newspapers or weekly/monthly magazines. So, choose wisely, Bug. Commit. Binge a book on purpose. Fiction, nonfiction, graphic novel, just pick a goddess damned book and read the entire fucking thing.