Procrastination is my own personal affliction; it’s also so common that it might be said to be universal. It’s not exclusive to losers, or even humans; pigeons procrastinate, and so do monkeys ...

A book club based in Los Angeles has finally finished reading its first book selection — which it began 28 years ago. The group finished "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce this week.

This is my attempted cure for procrastination. Such use of a memento mori – a reminder of one’s inevitable death – has been advocated by various philosophers and theologians over the ages.

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The book is a long look into one Sunday in the life of Annabel, a young Oxford student whose task is to write a paper on Shakespeare. But, unsurprisingly to anyone who remembers their own school ...