Here are some books we hope to finish, and some we hope to never read again. “Harrow the Ninth” by Tamsyn Muir It pains me to say that I did not finish “Harrow the Ninth.” I was enamored with its ...

Then you should absolutely finish the book for bitching fodder,” Maggie Q. Thompson, the news editor at The Austin Chronicle, told me. “The slump risk is a nonissue here.

For instance, in 2013 only 6% of athletes failed to finish Ironman Coeur d’Alene. There have been a handful of years with single-digit did-not-finish percentages.