Educated
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What do you do with books you were assigned to read part of and dnf?
Jay
Dec 20, 2018 12:41AM
long time reader, first-time discussion starter, **(Sorry! This is not about the book Educated, it would not let me post without selecting a title, I realize now that I perhaps haven't chosen the correct thread for this, but here we are...)
I am in grad school and frequently assigned portions of books to read in many classes (on a quarter system to boot). e.g.. this quarter a prof assigned 14 full books for a ten-week course and portions of a handful more. I only completely read one of those books, but only about half the pages for the rest of them. That's just one class, and given it was a bit of a heavy reading course I take 3-4 classes a quarter three times a year. While I DNF most these, I often have dug very deeply into the chapters we read (perhaps even wrote a paper regarding part of the book) and would likely have a stronger feel for the author's writing than if I just read the whole thing at my leisure in a week.
truly most these books are dnf, but not b/c they are bad or uninteresting, merely b/c I will be immediately swamped with more required reading and writing come next quarter and simply cannot return to finish all of them.
Being in school, I feel like I'm reading as much as ever (or more) and much less frequently finishing titles than I was before.
I want to know what others do with this situation, and my question is threefold:
how do you categorize these unfinished books? just dnf or something else?
Do you give reviews?
Do you add them to your books at all?
I am in grad school and frequently assigned portions of books to read in many classes (on a quarter system to boot). e.g.. this quarter a prof assigned 14 full books for a ten-week course and portions of a handful more. I only completely read one of those books, but only about half the pages for the rest of them. That's just one class, and given it was a bit of a heavy reading course I take 3-4 classes a quarter three times a year. While I DNF most these, I often have dug very deeply into the chapters we read (perhaps even wrote a paper regarding part of the book) and would likely have a stronger feel for the author's writing than if I just read the whole thing at my leisure in a week.
truly most these books are dnf, but not b/c they are bad or uninteresting, merely b/c I will be immediately swamped with more required reading and writing come next quarter and simply cannot return to finish all of them.
Being in school, I feel like I'm reading as much as ever (or more) and much less frequently finishing titles than I was before.
I want to know what others do with this situation, and my question is threefold:
how do you categorize these unfinished books? just dnf or something else?
Do you give reviews?
Do you add them to your books at all?
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