@read-and-be-merry List of Books to Read Before You Die
- Any book you want
- Don’t read books you don’t want to read
- That’s it
- Congratulations you did it
@iammewhooaryou | really like this list. All my favorite books are on it.
@ read-and-be-merry Thanks | worked really hard on it
I am 60, i have read alot, I mean a lot, severalbooks a week for decades. I also don’t watch TV and quit work when i was 35, so i am always busy.
I am starting to think this is juat like social media brain rot, what was the book 10 books ago I read, no fusking idea.
I am thinking of changing it up and selecting say 20 books and just re reading them a 1/2.dozen times to really know them.
The probelm with that is what ? Of all the books I’ve read in my life maybe 3 stand out. I tired going highbrow and read stuff like Joseph Conrad but “Heart of Darkness” is dull as batshit :) Watership Down (at least I finsihed it).similarly, Tolkein I gave up on 20 pages into The Hobbit etc
i think one solution is to take notes while reading. maybe try and summarize the plot or write down some interesting things. I also read a lot and notes help keep things together. What I do after reading a book is to go through the highlights I made (which don’t take much effort in the moment) and see if I wanna make any of them permanent in my obsidian vault. That process takes from ten minutes to an hour per book, but that’s how insights stick. It gets you actually thinking about the book, instead of just experiencing it without much brain activity. But sometimes when I know I’m reading trash turning off my brain can be comfortable too.