About three months ago I started reading G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy and just today I made it to the last chapter. Why did it take so long to get to this point? It’s not a particularly difficult read, although it’s not easy reading either. So, am I a slow reader? Actually, yes, but that’s not why it took so long. Instead, I took so long to get to this point, because I remained true to form regarding my reading habits, which is to always become interested in a handful of other books when ever I become interested in any particular book. In this case, since I first picked up Orthodoxy, I have also began reading the following books:

The Powers That Be, by Walter Wink
Useless Beauty,  by Robert K. Johnston
The Sacred Canopy, by Peter L. Berger
Is the Reformation Over? by Mark A. Noll & Carolyn Nystrom
Traversing Philosophical Boundaries, by Max O. Hallman
The Spiritual Brain, by Mario Beauregard & Denyse O’Leary
The Death of Adam, by Marilynne Robinson

Have I finished any of these other books? No! And, when I think about this, I feel compelled to confess that I must be into mental masturbation, which is to say that I pick up books merely to stimulate neurons, and therefore, if a particular book isn’t “hittin it”, so to speak, I will look around till I find something that does. The whole subconscious drama must be something like this, “Oh yeah book, that is awesome, do that some more, and more, and more, and, and… hmmm, I think I am growing tired of this. Oooooh, look at that over there, that book looks good, let me get my hands on that book.”

I am a book whore!

I realize that I am likely oversexualizing this whole affair, and all of this is just a symptom of my ADD brain, but I have to ask, does anybody else have a tendency to spread themselves thin when it comes to reading habits?

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