I decided to revisit this page and checked if there was any improvement 13 years later...

• Kokoro - Natsume Soseki - finished but forgot most parts except for the plot
• The Trial - Kafka - finished but forgotten
• Letters to a Young Poet - Rilke - can remember only a single line
• Duino Elegies - Rilke - never read
• Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell - never read
• Tuesdays with Morrie - Albom - did not finish
• A Country Doctor - Kafka - did not finish
• Between the acts - Woolf - never read
• Kafka on the shore - Murakami - never read
• Metamorphosis - Kafka - never read
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez - never read
• 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami - never read
• Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - never read
• Memoirs of my Melancholy Whores by Gabriel Garcia-Marquez (DES) -never read

My conclusion: I haven't touched a single book for pleasure reading since college; haven't finished a book since law school; the only progress I gained academically were:

finished the Pre-judicature Program for trial court judges (Feb-Apr 2023) finished basic course in Accounting and Finance (Sept-Nov 2025)

2) Ermita: A Filipino Novel, F. Sionil Jose "The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made."6) Animal Farm, George Orwell "Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself."9) A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess "When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man." (NEEN)