BADD

I have a problem with reading books. I have a mild form of ADD when it comes to reading, so I jump around a lot, and find myself reading 4-5 books at once, none of which I ever actually finish. I also buy books compulsively at a faster pace than i could realistically read them.

So, I’ve decided to do two things:

1. Finish all the books I have started but not finished. This starts with The Marx-Engels Reader, which I am reading right now.
2. Read all of the books we own before I allow myself to buy another book.

Here’s a list of books I have started in the last few years but never finished that I intend to finish:

• The Marx-Engels Reader
• [Good Muslim, Bad Muslim][2], by Mahmood Mamdani
• Reconstructing the Classics: Political Theory from Plato to Marx
• The Affluent Society
• The Prince
• Class
• Secrets and Lies
• By-Line Ernest Hemingway : Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades
• The Federalist Papers
• The Anti-Federalist Papers – I am at least fair and balanced in my half-reads
• The Looting of Social Security
• The Truly Disadvantaged – I only read about 75% of this, and for as much as I reference it, I owe it to myself to read it again and finish it this time.
• Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century
• [From Beirut to Jerusalem][14]
• The Calculus of Consent: Logical Foundations of Constitutional Democracy
• The Meaning of Relativity