Can you keep the cup from tipping?/ Can you keep the grip from slipping in despair?/ For just another day

Speaking of the rules, I appreciate this article's points. Finish the books that you start! It's a cornerstone of this project for good reason. I know some people say that life is too short but:

• Life isn't really all that short.
• Even if it were, it cuts both ways; leaving a trail of unfinished books in your wake doesn't mean you somehow only got to have great moments in your reading life because:
• I can think of so many list books that took awhile to hit their stride, some that I didn't love till the very, very end, and if I had given up I would have missed so much. That more than makes up for the few that I didn't want to finish.
• It's a slippery slope. Once you start not finishing books, I think that it becomes harder and harder to finish books.
• I'm sort of an expert at reading lots of books at this point, so you should just trust me (ethos and such).