My Whole Life
by littlesarahbigworld
“Tsundoku”
積ん読
Noun
“(informal) the act of leaving a book unread after buying it, typically piled up together with other such unread books” (from Wikipedia)
I stumbled across this word the other day and read it aloud to Chad. He didn’t say anything, just looked around our apartment.
If nothing else, it is comforting to know that I’m moving to a place where the language accommodates so specifically my exact mania.
confession: I did not read more than 3 pages of Agusuten Burroughs book. I read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH instead and then his book was placed on hold so I returned it.
Yeah, I kind of slogged through it. There are definitely some wisdom gems in there, but a lot of it is opinionated repetitive filler that’s neither backed up by statistics nor supplemented by personal anecdotes. Just generalizations.
and by Agusten Burroughs, I meant Augusten Burroughs