November Group Read: First Check-In

[kalloway]

Here we are, one week in. Have you finished or started anything? How are you feeling? (It is perfectly fine if the answers are "no", "nope", and "augh", of course.)


For added optional discussion, if you'd like- Do you ever DNF (Did Not Finish) books? If so, what makes you DNF something and when? Style? Content? Not grabbing you after x% of pages? Something else? Or are you the type of reader who finishes everything you start, no matter what?

Comments

[kalloway]

it had some good ideas, but also a bunch that I know wouldn't work for me at work or home

I feel this way about basically every decluttering/organizational book I've read. There's generally something in each one that does work for me, but a lot that doesn't. At this point, it's just building a little toolkit of things to try and keeping what works and ditching what doesn't. (And recognizing when the advice is just downright bad, oi.)

[peaceful_sands]

I agree, that’s pretty much been my experience too - the decluttering book that told me I should have no more than ‘a small shelf that incorporates reference books and books waiting to be read’ was on to a losing streak at that point - clearly the author didn’t have quite the same love of books and reading that I did!

[kalloway]

I think I've only ever read one organizing book that flat out said 'if you want your space to look like a library because you like books, go for it', but unfortunately that was also the book that liked to put everything in decorative boxes and then stack them, which would absolutely guarantee I never put things away in/use anything in those lower boxes.