The Forge Guide to Reading Better

It’s Okay Not to Finish the Book

And other reading rules you’re better off breaking

Naben Ruthnum
Forge
Published in
5 min readJan 22, 2020
Illustration: George(s)

InIn the last week of December, it seemed like half of the book-reading public was on social media feeding hashtags like #95books and #ReadingChallenge, ignoring their families to madly skim the last 10 books that would allow them to hit their…

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Naben Ruthnum
Forge
Writer for

Toronto based author of Curry: Eating, Reading and Race. Two thrillers (Your Life Is Mine / Find You In the Dark) as Nathan Ripley.