Incomplete

Can't help it. It's how it is at the moment. 

Since the past few weeks I've hit the strangest obstruction of my life. The obstruction of not being able to complete reading any book I pick up!

Okay fine, I did finish reading the book of Deuteronomy last week or so. But a large number of the books I'm reading still lay in the dreaded "Incomplete" section in my brain.
I'm surprised my brain can follow up reading the same book after leaving it unread for such a long time. But at the same time, my rational brain has lately been acting irrational by adding to my brain-load by adding new books into my already long list of books I need/want to read.

To give you an idea of my mental torture, here's the list of books I'm kinda reading, kinda leaving incomplete for my anxiety to dwell on...and the time since I've started reading that particular book.....
1.Body Language (Hindi): State of Mind That Different Body Postures and Gestures Reveal - Arun Sagar [Around 1 year]
2. The Case book of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [3 months]
3. Modern Japanese Literature - Donald Keene [3 weeks]

4. Gospel of Matthew - St Matthew [1 and a half week]

5. Around the world in 80 days - Jules Verne [1 week]

Yes, they're good books. Some of which you may haven't even heard about. But I find it really frustrating over the fact that I haven't been able to finish these books and so now they're just annoying my head over and over again pleading to me to finish them off once and for all. 

First, lemme give you a brief idea of why I'm reading each of these books, maybe that will motivate me to work harder towards finally reading them with a new found strength and focus.

1. Body Language (Hindi) - Arun Sagar

I got this book as a gift. Didn't really buy it out of my own choice. It was sitting in my cupboard for about a year (at the time) so I decided I might as well read it because I need to improve on my Hindi vocabulary and what better way to do it than to read about a topic I'm kind of interested in? (Psychology)

2. The Case book of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I used to watch the dramatized version of this book series when I was 8-9 years old. Now, I have no clue about what happened in those series. All I remember was this...Sherlock Holmes was a cool character. He was a detective, he played the violin, and he fought in a very civilized effortless manner. I had the opportunity of reliving these memories by reading the books and I took it. (Though I did no recall anything and it was like all the novellas were new to me) 

3. Modern Japanese Literature - Donald Keene 
This was available at my college library. And it caught my eye at the literature section because of it's Japanese origin and the fact it was from the Literature section. So far this book was extremely interesting and the style of writing is very unique and pretty; but like stated in the initial paragraphs of this blog post, I have lots of chapters to finish of this book and I'm no where near completion. 

4. Gospel of Matthew - St Matthew 
This is the second time I'm reading all of the gospels from beginning to the end, since during masses and sermons only a tiny extract is used. And many a times, when you take out an extract from the wholeness of the situation in a book, you miss out the context or the understanding of what actually took place.
This goes out for all books, but I'm saying this especially for this Biblical book because the Bible is very often quoted without understanding its context. 
I started reading this book for the second time because I just finished reading the Torah and now I feel I've gotten a better understanding of the Jewish customs and traditions of Jesus' times.

5. Around the world in 80 days - Jules Verne 

I began reading this book after a suggestion by our Book Club mentor. The book started off very slow and boring but it gradually began picking up pace. 
I love the picture it paints with all it's descriptions of the places they travel to but then again, I have no clue how and where things lead later on in the book for previously stated reasons. 

I feel bad for the authors who wrote these books. Cause I'm taking more time to read these books than the time it took for the authors to write these very same books. It's not for sure though, guesswork, only cause I feel I'm taking too long to do so. 

What do you feel? Would you suggest to me any books to read after I'm finally done with these? You can answer these questions in the comment section below.