To Finish a Book
As I draw to the end of my spiritual direction training, I am going to miss having deadlines for reading the books I love. Why do I need deadlines to read books that I want to read? I have no idea. I just don’t ever seem to finish one unless I have a firm deadline.
Has anyone else experienced this phenomenon when it comes to non-fiction that you truly want to read?
Does anyone else have numerous “on my reading list” books lining your shelves (and often have 2 going at once) but you add new ones faster than you finish the ones you own?
Does anyone else carry a book around with you only to still be on p.37 three weeks into it?
And for those who are reading on a deadline, do you do the quirky page calculation thing as the weeks go by?
Me: “I can easily finish these 500 pages if I read 50 a week for the next ten weeks.”
Only to later hear the voice of the SpongeBob narrator “three. weeks. later…”
Me again: “I can finish these 480 pages if I read 70 pages a week for the next seven weeks.”
Ugh!
This must be why people who aren’t in school join book clubs; to ensure they will read books in a timely fashion.
These are the books that I MUST finish by May 1:
When the Well Runs Dry: Prayer Beyond the Beginnings, by Thomas Green
The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery, by David Benner
To Tell the Sacred Tale: Spiritual Direction and Narrative, by Janet Ruffing
And, yes, I have to read 100 pages a week to finish them all. So, if my phone is on ‘do not disturb’ you will know I am reading.
