Started reading Faulkner in release order. Ngl, The Sound and the Fury is tough to get through.

now reading The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

had to tap out of that one

usually try to avoid using this word but her writing was just too pretentious for me

about 80 pages in and yea she is doing ALOT. i'll see how long i can stick with it. what are you reading right now?

I grabbed The Secret History of Twin Peaks (even though I have like 2 episodes left of The Return, I dont think it'll matter for spoilers cuz it was written before The Return) from the library so I have to read it somewhat fast.

That brings my physical/iPad TBR to (in order of priority):

Secret History of TP
East of Eden (Joint physical and audiobook read)
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
Misery
Dune

reading Perfume rn and enjoying it so far

recently read Deacon King Kong which I thought was excellent, definitely recommend that one

haven't heard of Perfume. who is that by?

Patrick Süskind

not a very well known author but I've heard a lot of good things about Perfume and had it on my TBR for a while. think I've seen people in this section mention it too

should I read The Odyssey if The Iliad was a 5/10 (in terms of enjoyment)?

I enjoyed The Odyssey a lot more than The Iliad… Tbh I like The Song of Achilles more than The Iliad 😂

I picked up Jade City today, only planned on reading the first couple chapters and I’m somehow on page 206 now 😭

thanks bro i'll check it out

It's in the thread of books finished too. Perfume was a good read. Bizarre ending but good read

ended up putting this back on the shelf... another time

almost done reading Queer by William Burroughs now

finished this a few days ago, started outer dark by mccarthy and wanna start C&P soon but im really missing the characters from secret history

Now reading Sky Full of Elephants (Cebo Campbell) sci fi where every White person drowns themselves and every Black person must now survive

i’m in a reading slump rn, i feel like everything i wanna pick up im just not in the mood for at the moment :/ really wanna get over this feeling of anxiousness…how do yall manage to stay focused and encouraged to read when at home?

sorry if i asked this question before - i find a lot of self-fulfillment and pleasure in reading, it’s just sometimes i get too much in my head lol

just put a hold on this at the library. what are your thoughts so far?

what has worked for me and maybe this is super pro-consumer but buying new books, like actually going to book stores and shopping for new books usually does the trick for me.

if you're in a slump, you have to read what excites you, like that's the most important thing. whatever it is that gets you excited, read that. it could be a book that JUST came out, go out and buy it because that'll get the ball rolling at least.

Almost done with Frankenstein. Mary Shelley was 19 when she wrote this? 19? Crazy

Also maybe starting small. Jumping straight into a Sanderson tome of a book might not do bro any favors lol

see, every time i do this the books just end up sitting on my shelf that’s on me

Haven't read in 2 months it's over

not even this tbh (though i did DNF that book in the past lol); it’s just a matter of me looking at the words and not being able to process them, even though ik i’m capable of comprehending them. like, i have all these books on my shelf that i’ve been DYING to read, but i can’t get in the headspace for some reason…my brain just won’t allow me to sometimes. i’ve been able to pummel through one piece though without a problem lol

idk how else to explain my predicament i probably sound like a psycho