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[–] 19 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I figure I already read tens of thousands of words a day on here and the news apps, and it's not exactly doing me mental health favors - so I went and renewed my library card this winter and have knocked out about 15 in 4 months. It feels really good to get your sense of focus and attention span back! Takes a bit of time but its like riding a bike, your brain goes back to being a kid.

I hope you had books as a kid.

I hope your kid has books today.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    This was me, last week lol. Already had the card, but criminally underused it. I love philosophy, but haven't read most of the actual works, so I picked up some Camus and Kafka. Just finished The Fall, and I'm so glad to have done so.

    I also signed up for Libby, thinking audiobooks on hikes would be dope, but so far my mind wanders too much to absorb the words, so that's been challenging.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I'm right about on track with you, I've read 19 books so far this year, but that includes Roger Zelazny's Amber series, which are fairly short novels.

    I also read a lot on Lemmy, but I'm recently retired, and don't have a lot else going on.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I hope your kid has books today.

    My kid has books and we constantly read books so I am absolutely outread by the end of the day. To be fair, the hat trilogy by Jon Klassen and gymnastics for the tail Grigori Oster are a lot of fun to read and cut straight to the point, not like grown up books, so I find a lot of enjoyment in what we read in general. But whenever I try to pick up a book for adults I now automatically fall asleep. Best I can do is manga and graphic novels right now. Unfortunately my kid finds them and mistakes these for comics, I ended up having to read Persepolis to a four year old.

    This has also impacted my ability to go back to work. I can't read a scientific paper without falling asleep anymore.

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