Saving Goethe

When I was a teenager I used to do a lot of reading. My daily goal was to get home as soon as possible from school, just to be able to spend the rest of the day locked in my messy room, lying down on my comfortable bed reading one of those incomprehensible classic books that I pretended to understand very well. So at that time, I blindly believed it would be very likely that I already *had read Goethe's Faust by the age of 20. Silly me. Now I have no time and no discipline at all. When I finally started my degree in literature and linguistics studies, I thought, "Oh, it is going to be amazing, now I will be able to read as many books as I can without blaming myself for lost productive time *with pleasure". Silly me part II.

To my surprise, the literature subjects were focused more on theory than on practice. In other words, we were bombarded by* the theory of The Brothers Karamazov, the theory of The Iliad, the theory on how to read a novel properly. The more my boring professors talked about these theories* the more I asked myself when the hell they would give us another life so that we could have enough time to read all those books before the class. I mean, what is the point of talking for hours about the theory of a book that no one *had time to read?

Now that I have managed to get my degree* I find myself in adulthood. I mean, I have to work all day long to provide for myself* and when I get home I am feeling so tired that it seems to be too much effort to pick up a book and start doing something more challenging than watching TV series on Netflix. I am currently trying to *come back to my old reading habits. And it is weird and sounds unnatural to me: to force myself to do something I actually like and avoid things I just don't like at all.

* 'that I already had read' :  that I had already read     It might be better to write:

' . . it was (very) likely that I would (already) have read Goethe's Faust . . '

* 'read as many books as I can without blaming myself for lost productive time with pleasure' :

read with pleasure as many books as I can without blaming myself for lost productive time

* probably 'bombarded with . . '

*comma

* has had time to read

*comma

*comma

*probably 'trying to get back to . . ' or 'trying to go back to . . '

There are several more places in the text where commas would be useful to break it up in to phrases, but the ones I have highlighted are essential.