Hit me with some finance books

bro how fast do yall read like how many pages per hour, i realized im a slow ass reader i read like 15 pages an hour

in, want to start reading some more in quarantine

Where would be the best place to post one off poetry and articles and such? A tumblr?

depends on the book honestly but usually like 1 to 2 minutes a page

Just finished the book All Our Wrong Todays. P decent if you're into time travel/sci fi type stuff.

read some grangé if u like thriller cop stuff

Started reading Gravity’s Rainbow. About 85 pages in and f*** man.

Christ, I literally have to go over some chapters after I finished them because you’re bombarded with so much information contained in so many shifts in perspective that I actively feel stressed while reading it.

This is clearly a book meant to be read piece by piece, because I legit feel like I’d cry if I tried to read and understand this book in long reading sessions.

I’m doing it in like 15 page chunks.

Just finished Sadie by Courtney Summers

really dark book. its told in two ways
1) first person by the titular character, Sadie, telling us what happened
2) like a true crime podcast script trying to find out what happened to Sadie a year later

highly recommend

^and if anybody can recommend me any other dark thrillers that sound similar, i would appreciate it

Last 3 books read:
A long way home - Saroo Brierley
The perks of being a wallflower - Stephen Chbosky
Do androids dream of electric sheep? - Philip K D***

Read all these this month and would recommend them all!

Thinking of starting East of Eden next, if anyone has any recommendations lemme know

Just finished For Whom The Bell Tolls and now I‘m on to The Sun Also Rises.

For Whom The Bell Tolls is absolutely devastating. It’s a bit of a slog in the middle and understandably many don’t like the sometimes wonky spanish translations. For me the final chapters made it all worthwhile. Haven’t cried to a book like this in years.

Finishing Hit Man: The Thomas Hearns Story by Brian & Damian Hughes. Pretty adequate biography. It's deeper than George Kimball's Four Kings which had to split its pages among the four. All I can ask really for. Spends more time on each fight and especially digs into his relationship with trainer and father figure Emmanuel Steward who I'm especially interested in.

Still working on *Moby D****. You really can't run through this book. So dense with so many tangents. I finish a chapter a couple of pages long and want to savor it. There are so many passages of prose that I have to pour over repeatedly to fully appreciate. What a masterpiece.

Also started Alan Moore's A League of Extraordinary Gentleman. I liked the movie as a kid despite its flaws. So far it's been much lighter on substance than Watchmen even with dark content. I'm hoping for a heavier turn at some point. It's definitely hinting at further commentary regarding empire. I'm only like 4 issues in. I think it's pretty cool Moore & artist Kevin O'Neill went the problematic route of depicting s*** like Mr. Hyde and the Chinamen as they would have been in the period the series throws back to. Really makes you confront that history in an uncomfortable way.

I gave a close friend a book that revolved around mental illness now he is seeing a therapist and was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder

I feel bad :(
he even wanted to burn my book

Why do you feel bad? If your friend his schizoaffective, he definitely needed help. You should feel good.

deep

Just finished Dune two weeks ago. Proud I actually finished it and it is just as spiritual as it is a sci-fiction novel

Ik those titles will scare people, but this was the right thing to happen.

It’ll be way eaiser to seek help with their mental problems after a disgnosis.

Also, unless it’s super obvsiously this, if get a second doctors opinion.

Ive heard of a myraid of mental health issues just get labelled as schizo by doctors.

Started East Of Eden

10% in right now, let's see how it goes

Yea I think he spoke to two doctors as far I know rn.

We haven't really sat and spoke since the lockdown, only met him once during a store run but he wasn't to willing to speak on it in detail. Just gave me the book back.

Praying he gets the best help too

Yeah lack of communication sounds like a bummer for sure.

Make sure you don’t blame yourself at all, not like you gave them these conditions. Just gave something that unearthed what was already there

ya'll ever just cry while reading

Bought the Lil B book 'Takin Over' and still waiting for it to arrive from Canada. Fuming