Social reading apps* tempt me to put off tackling slower works for a higher short-term book count. I know it isn\u2019t a contest, but my competition compulsion doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I might focus on a few long reads in 2026. That 2-volume\u00a0Literary History of the American Revolution<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0Burton\u2019s Anatomy of Melancholy<\/a><\/em>. Emily Wilson\u2019s\u00a0Iliad<\/a><\/em> translation. A big novel like\u00a0War and Peace<\/a><\/em>\u00a0or\u00a0The Tale of Genji<\/a><\/em>\u00a0or maybe even\u00a0Finnegans Wake<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n I read\u00a0Finnegans Wake<\/em>\u00a0when I was young, but in a superficial, just-want-to-say-I-did-it way. That kind of gamified text-gulping is exactly what I want to leave behind now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Social reading apps tempt me to put off tackling slower works…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[42,26,25],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","tag-42","tag-books","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bedriegerjunction.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\n\n\n* Such as StoryGraph<\/a><\/pre>\n\n\n\n