[Warning: whinge alert]
Over the weekend, I have 50 pages of law readings to do (having read over 60 for Thursday’s seminar, this is required by Tuesday’s.) Add that to over 100 pages which I didn’t have time to read over the last fortnight, and there’s 150 pages from just one subject. Law readings are typically badly written and slow to read. I have been known to fall asleep trying to read them.
Philosophy and English both have lots of reading as well. I’m writing an essay on rhetoric, and have great books by Aristotle and Campbell to read. Philosophy brings me Hume, Nietzsche, Plato, Kant, among others.

It’s very frustrating.

Why? I love reading! And the readings are, generally, really interesting.
It frustrates me that I have so much to do that: a) I can never spend enough time thinking about the stuff they are talking about. You can’t just let meta-ethics wash over you, and b) I never seem to have enough time to read stuff that I want to read.

So I apologise if you’ve left a comment recently: I will try to engage with it, but it might be a while before I have enough time!

Does your study/job require you to read a lot? Do you find this frustrating? Any suggestions?

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