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Whether it’s an overbearing workload, the death-march pace of classes with gargantuan reading lists, my own lackadaisical demeanor, or books that are three hundred pages too long, I constantly find myself tossing aside several unfinished books each semester. I like to think that I read more carefully and thoughtfully than other students, that it just takes me longer to read a book satisfactorily and that there isn’t enough time to finish everything. But my rationalization often ignores the embarrassing truth...
...usually make a judgment about a book after reading the first chapter; sometimes even the first page. If I don’t find a novel interesting, I generally stop, no matter how distinguished its literary pedigree. I quit reading “Kristin Lavransdatter” (Sigrid Undset’s Nobel-Prize winning historical romance set in 14th century Norway) after the first sentence, “When the earthly goods of Ivar Gjesling the Younger of Sundbu were divided up in the year 1306, his property at Sil was given to his daughter Ragnfrid and her husband...
...Doing it the way we’ve always done it has served us well in the past," Councillor Craig A. Kelley said. "However, I would like to find out whether [the runoff] is a legal option...
...When I listen to classical music, it draws my whole attention. So I’m very careful not to do that unless I’m working on something because I just find it too distracting...
...find that when singing opera you lose yourself in your characters, that their worries become yours, that their amours burn hot in your own heart...