2) Read what you want to. Don't ask why you want it: most desires serve some purpose, but knowing the purpose doesn't further it. Feed your head the reading it craves.
3) Embrace your existential freedom to put down a book. You are reading that book because you chose to read it--you have no moral obligation to finish it before you start another one, or ever. If another book tempts you, succumb. Here are a few of the books I currently have in progress. I am enjoying all of the items on this list, and I mean to finish them all -- some day. At least two have been on pause for years. (I have omitted books I have no intention of finishing.)
- The Dreamthief's Daughter by Michael Moorcock
- Exodus from the Long Sun by Gene Wolfe
- Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
- The Translator by John Crowley
- Story by Robert McKee
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
- The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
- Blue Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Essential Doctor Strange (That's right, you can also leave comic books unfinished.)
- A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard
- Popeye by Segar, edited by Mike Higgs
- The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luis Borges
- The Arabian Nights (appropriately enough)
Follow these three simple principles and soon you too will attain the ideal of true literary polymorphous perversity.
Note: I would provide individual links to the above books, but reading the xmbrst way has weakened my character to the point where I am unable to exert the required effort. You can always go to Amazon and find the books for yourself.