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tallon · 4661 days ago · link · · parent · post: Ask Hubski: Once you've finished a book, what do you do?
A few years ago I had the idea of writing a book review after every book I've read. I also tried to read a book once every few weeks. I have a bad habit of not finishing books, because I get bored of them (though I'm unsure of how bad such a habit - perhaps I'm falling prey to the sunk cost fallacy and allowing my guilt of not finishing the book to keep me from capitalizing on other opportunity costs). This was mainly to keep up my writing skills. Unfortunately, I only finished one review, and left the others simply as outlines of main points I wanted to discuss.
Perhaps if you don't feel like writing an entire appraisal of the book is useful to you, you could focus instead on writing about one (or more, if you find them) really interesting concepts, events, or well-written passages.
thenewgreen · 4660 days ago · link ·
I have a bad habit of not finishing books too. Then all of a sudden I'll go on a 2 month tear, when I read (and finish) a bunch of books. Right now I am stuck half way through Mythago Wood. I like it a lot, I just moved on to some others and it got placed to the side.