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muckefuckGoodreads and the gamification it provides is helping prod me to read even while my pace remains discouragingly slow. In order to have the thrill of some "easy wins", I've started to put books on it I'd mostly finished and then cast aside for months or even years but even those are taking me forever. Like I think was down to the last 60 pages or so of An American childhood when I listed it a month ago and I only managed to reach the end last night. It starts so well but there's no real throughline to it that I can find and her experiences get more mainstream the more she approaches me in age and time.
I've only got 16 pages of the Sansal left. You'd hope that would be an hour's reading at most but, knowing me, I've got another week before I finish that. I thought the Suzan-Lori Parks would be a snappy palate-cleanser (she's primarily known as a playwright so her novel is rich in plot and dialogue) and it still took me weeks. And my progress in A dictionary of Maqiao has just been incremental. This would've been a better read for me closer to when it came out (1996). But it wasn't even translated until 2005 and it was years more before I stumbled across it.
My Italian pal really puts me to shame, finishing a 600+ biography of Frederick Douglass in the same time that I've read less than a hundred pages of The lost universe in addition to all the reading he's done for fun. And English isn't even his native language! I just need to be stronger about hanging up on social media but there are few things out there these days more easily said than done.
I've only got 16 pages of the Sansal left. You'd hope that would be an hour's reading at most but, knowing me, I've got another week before I finish that. I thought the Suzan-Lori Parks would be a snappy palate-cleanser (she's primarily known as a playwright so her novel is rich in plot and dialogue) and it still took me weeks. And my progress in A dictionary of Maqiao has just been incremental. This would've been a better read for me closer to when it came out (1996). But it wasn't even translated until 2005 and it was years more before I stumbled across it.
My Italian pal really puts me to shame, finishing a 600+ biography of Frederick Douglass in the same time that I've read less than a hundred pages of The lost universe in addition to all the reading he's done for fun. And English isn't even his native language! I just need to be stronger about hanging up on social media but there are few things out there these days more easily said than done.
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