I Took 10 Months to Read a Book Less Than 300 Pages

Kind of a big day here at the homestead.

I just finished Quiety Hostile: Essays by Samantha Irby. It was a good book (I gave it four stars), but looking at my GoodReads.com history I see that I started the book on July 17, 2023.

Yep, 10 months.

Literally a few days ago I wasn’t even 50% of the way through it.

And now? Finished.

To be clear, there’s nothing wrong with the book nor its author; the problem is entirely with me.

Why so long? Well, I got the physical copy from the library but then I also got involved in another book, and then involved in Patrick Stewart’s biography, so I had the book far longer than I should have. I returned it when I saw that the ebook copy was available. I borrowed that sometime this fall, maybe, and then didn’t finish it in time to return it.

So I put my Kindle into airplane mode and it sat there, unread, for months.

But I finished it this week, and hey! I liked it!

Sigh…

I’m an idiot.

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