By: Adrian Pantonial
After eight years, I finally finished reading Philip Yancey’s “The Jesus I Never Knew.” Ok, let me explain. I was a new Christian when I first tried reading it, which was after reading “What’s So Amazing About Grace?”
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I bought my own copy of the “The Jesus…” only to see it has more “big words” in it and scholarly records of The Man I’m interested about. Along the way, I lent the book to my first church discipler and it was not returned to me for some reason. Years went on then months ago, I swapped books by the same author with a church friend and alas…I finished it! Hooray!
So far, I have read more than 111 books in my adult life and I resolve to read more because it helps me grow in many ways.
Although I still have unfinished books, I somehow learned to overcome these reasons why people stop reading a book:
- Procrastination
- Lack of self-discipline
- Lack of space and time
- Major life issues
- The author has a boring writing style
- The book’s over-all design is dull
- The book fails to address my current felt needs
- It no longer educate, entertain or inspire
- The topic discussed can actually be finished in just a few chapters
- Got distracted with reading a new book
To complete our much-needed reading, here are my suggestions.
Read more to write more but don’t forget to live more too, ok? 
Question: What makes you stop reading a book?
My reasons are a mix of 1 and 10.
When other things get in the way, I usually forget about the book I’m reading. But lately, I’ve been making more of an effort to actually tackle my reading list before I proceed to get more books.
Which also means I have been seriously avoiding bookstores lately.
@ Keshia -Thanks for reading this post and leaving a comment. Avoiding bookstores? Haha! I used to have the same challenge before. I guess now that I’ve grown much older, I now know how to manage my priorities better as well as my finances. Hehe!
i stopped reading a book when i finally got “a life”… I’ve gone out more, interact more whether online or offline. But it never stopped me reading small articles and blogs.
finally, i got my passion back to reading and there are definitely books that are still in my shelf that i haven’t even looked into yet. but regardless… when i got back my passion for books, i don’t want to stop – especially ebooks.
i still have a lot of books to go, including the bible and the one we are reading for discussion (Captivating and Wild at Heart – just a suggestion). Crossing my fingers. i want to finish all of it.
@ Bebekoh – Thank you for dropping by and leaving a comment.
I hope you finish your reading inspite of your other priorities in life…I’ve read Wild at Heart too.
I’m guilty with 9 and 10…another thing is, I always stop at a bookstore, particularly, BookSale, and I can’t resist to buy at least one new book at a cheaper cost…
got the same reasons haha
YOU Should Read ;ppp
At one time or another I’ve experienced all 10 of these reasons!
Then, other books capture me and I can’t put them down until I’m done -cover to cover!!
@ Denise Hisey – Don’t worry, you’re not the only one guilty of it.