FURTHER NARCISSISM
About Joshua Newman
Cyan Pictures
CrossFit NYC

PRIOR GENIUS
Everything Archived
Autobiography (11)
Best Of (64)
Blogging (31)
City Life (63)
Cooking (14)
Crazy Theories (36)
Culture Consumption (28)
Dating (52)
Disclosures (49)
Entrepreneurship (41)
Exploits (54)
Filmmaking (57)
Fitness (18)
Friends & Family (24)
Guest Blog (5)
Jess (5)
Judaism (9)
Odds & Ends (55)
Podcast (3)
Politics (10)
Productivity (15)
Quotes (57)
Re-run (1)
Restaurants (10)
Science (7)
Style (20)
Techmology (8)
Toys (14)
Travel (33)
Troublemaking (16)
Trumpet (16)
Writing (3)

COLOPHON
Contact Joshua
Subscribe vis RSS

joy never ending
Filed Wednesday, September 1 2004.

While I love the feeling of accomplishment in finishing reading a book, if I'm enjoying a read - and, particularly, if I'm enjoying a novel - I tend to look with dread at the swaths of pages disappearing to the left. With each turn, I get closer and closer to running out of story, to no longer feeling the constant tug of the book, away from what I should be doing, begging me to curl up, read a chapter, and then another.

That's why I'm particularly glad I've enjoyed the first hundred pages of Anna Karenina (one of the many classics I somehow missed in my years of education). With literally hundreds and hundreds of pages yet to go, I have days of reading left before the fear of running out taints purely enjoying the unfolding narrative.