Books I’ve Been Reading for a Very, Very Long Time But Have Not Yet Finished

• The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

• The Mercy Papers by Robin Romm

• The Good Thief by Hannah Tinti

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• Big World by Mary Miller

• Pank #4

• Slice Magazine #4

• The Writer’s Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House

• Citizens Welles by Frank Brady
  

It’s not that I’m not enjoying these books and journals. I am. Immensely. I want to finish each of them. But somehow… I start one. I stop. I start another. I stop. It’s bad. It’s not good.

This is me admitting there’s a problem. The first step.

(Although somewhere in there, at some point, I did manage to start and finish Kevin Wilson’s Tunneling to the Center of the Earth. So there’s hope.)