Here are the books I’m currently in the middle of reading:

• Postern of Fate, Agatha Christie
• Bass Cathedral, Nathaniel Mackey
• Darkborn, Alison Sinclair
• Nudge : improving decisions about health, wealth, and happiness, Richard Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• Miss Manners’ Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior, Judith Martin (3rd time through)
• We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Shirley Jackson (4th or 5th time through)
• Confessions of an Eco-Sinner, Fred Pearce
• Nine Greek Dramas, Harvard Classics Series (specifically, The Bacchae by Euripides)
• Second Treatise of Civil Government, John Locke

Clearly, I’ve gone insane.

I want to read all most of them through to the end, but the difficult ones get set aside in favor of the mental equivalent of instant pudding. Or, in the case of the two re-reads, mental chicken corn chowder — reasonably nutritious, and so familiar and comforting.

Any advice on a plan of attack would be most helpful.