the plot is a bit messy, waiting for things to come together

I got back into reading like a year ago. I must say reading articles online and messaging boards etc do NO favors for your reading comprehension lol. It's like capping yourself at a 3rd grade level of reading. Not that you shouldn't spend time reading stuff online and getting up to date on current events etc but reading books is a different kind of focus imo and most even young adult books are written at a higher reading level than most of the stuff we consume on the internet.

How do you find new books to read?

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.

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.

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.

Just don't do it sitting on the toilet - it promotes haemorrhoids.

I'm a slow reader, arguably a bit dyslexic even. 15 minutes of reading is maybe 3 to 4 pages.

I find myself accidently skipping lines, then having to go back and re read what I already read, then realize I skipped that line too and the page all over again.

Even if not dyslexia, that font designed for dyslexic readers actually helps me a lot.

I am also reading Finnegans Wake

Steinbeck <3

Have you read In Dubious Battle? It's my fav after Grapes of Wrath

yooo thats such a good idea I just suggested it to my wife

It's so sad to see people with downtime jobs scrolling Instagram or tiktok all day instead of reading.

The Library... is open.

👓

Ah, Malazan, the series that filters out most of its potential audience with the driest and most incoherent first book I can remember reading.

For anyone who bounced off it, know that it gets so much better after that. It's like asking Tolkien readers to start with the Silmarillion - I just skip book one entirely on rereads.

Blindsight was both interesting and confusing as fuck.