Serial starter

I read somewhere that it's a good idea to create personal goals while job searching because it keeps you working towards something at a time when you don't have any professional accomplishments.

I'm still occasionally working on learning German, but I've decided I really want to attack my serial starter habit. If you're like me, you have a ton of bookmarks because they are invariably "lost" in books started, but never finished. On my night stand, I currently have a book on convergence media/technology, another on the history of ad agencies, the second volume of the complete stories of Sherlock Holmes, and a poetic/self realization book called 'The Invitation" that I've actually read at least twice before and started to read again several months ago.

I also have a bookmark stuck in a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, a Flannery O'Connor collection, and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (all three of which I started before we moved to Toulouse). And I just saw a Terry Pratchett novel I started back when I was studying in Montpellier but never finished. Ouch, that's almost 5 years.

So before the New Year I'm going to try to finish the half read books on my night stand. None of them are particularly difficult and they're all in English, so it shouldn't be so hard. It's a little sad to realize that I'm not much of a bookworm like I used to be as a kid, but then again back then I wasn't reading on the internet or spending time watching videos of Maru. Here's to kicking the serial starter habit.