Kierkegaard Reading Franzen

On self-pity and the need to get over ourselves

I can never read one book at a time. I always have four or five going at once with two or three more on the periphery. At times I’ve tried to buckle down and focus on one or two, but it never works out, and I’ve come to accept that this is how I like to read. One of the gifts of this diffuse reading habit is the contrasts that can come, the insights tha…