Books Backlog

I don't know how this has happened because normally I'm such a 'completist'. Recently I have started multiple books and and haven't finished a single one of them. I wondering if this is the 'ipod' effect were there's too much material floating about in my life.

Here's a list of my unfinished books. In chronological order with the first one the oldest in the 'half read list'.

Ian Rankin 'The Hanging Garden' 80% read
Alain de Botton 'Status Anxiety' 20% read
Jeremy Clarkson 'Born to be Riled' 80% read
Toby Young 'The Sound of no hands clapping' 5%

None of them are rubbish, life's too short. I'd stop reading them. This problem has been made worse by us joining the library for the kids. Now every Sunday we walk into town to let the kids have a wonder around the kids section of the library and I'm borrowing books that I know I'll never read.

So I'm looking at my pile of unfinisheds and tonight I'll plough on with Toby Young (funny and easy to read) put Ian Rankin in my work bag (light small paperback easy for the train). I've left the Clarkson upstairs for bathroom reading ( short chapters perfect). The Alain de Botton will stay in the bookcase (until I get a degree in whatever it is he's going on about!)

Oh, to make it worse a Q magazine arrived yesterday. Great!



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