Still slogging through my first book........

Almost four months ago I started reading The Red and the Black by Stendhal.  I am still at it -- and it's not that I don't like the book.  I do.  But oh, what MTV started in the 1980s, the Internet continued in the 1990s and my smart phone managed to finally kill off in me around 2012:  my attention span.  Stendhal's Julien had no such distractions in the 1830s and therefore could spend thousands of hours happily concentrating on memorizing the Bible and Horace in Latin.   I expect to finish before Christmas, gad.  Next in cue will be something short from my list...perhaps some of the short stories in my list.