that was such a prompt and thorough response! I have a feeling I activated your trap card there- (in any case, though, I greatly appreciate it!)
I suppose that first one there, vis-a-vis dropping a book immediately if it's boring me, would be where I'm committing a cardinal book sin. to an extent, it can't helped; at first there's all the assigned reading in school and sometimes you just get assigned the lousiest shit ever (I am eternally plagued by vague memories of a Cool Male Lead who Has A Very Philosophical Reason For Never Cleaning Up His Place), and then there's uni and well, I am now in my third course in which the reading is bad in some unique way. (at least this time around, it's bad because it's absolutely interminable, even if it's usually interesting and reads well until you start getting exhausted-). and then there's the ADHD -- and I was about to say that I always have to push myself at least a little bit in order to get any reading done, but now that I think about it, huh, no I don't. some things I just find myself swept along by so spontaneously, I will murder my sleep without a second thought in order to keep going (like a certain friend's very good fanfic, for example-). I suppose I've got to normalize it for myself that reading for leisure should be something I do leisurely, even if I'm trying to read about more interesting topics!
I do also have an hour-long daily commute that I could stand to use for reading more often, but then again, 7 AM is probably the exact kind of time when most kinds of reading would require an amount of pushing through-
anyway! I'll make a note of all these recs and hopefully one of these days I might draw out a plan of engagement from them -- again, thank you very much! in exchange, one of these days I could happily bolster that existentially long rec list of yours by pointing to a few particularly interesting classics of Brazilian literature
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Date: 2022-04-29 12:28 am (UTC)I suppose that first one there, vis-a-vis dropping a book immediately if it's boring me, would be where I'm committing a cardinal book sin. to an extent, it can't helped; at first there's all the assigned reading in school and sometimes you just get assigned the lousiest shit ever (I am eternally plagued by vague memories of a Cool Male Lead who Has A Very Philosophical Reason For Never Cleaning Up His Place), and then there's uni and well, I am now in my third course in which the reading is bad in some unique way. (at least this time around, it's bad because it's absolutely interminable, even if it's usually interesting and reads well until you start getting exhausted-). and then there's the ADHD -- and I was about to say that I always have to push myself at least a little bit in order to get any reading done, but now that I think about it, huh, no I don't. some things I just find myself swept along by so spontaneously, I will murder my sleep without a second thought in order to keep going (like a certain friend's very good fanfic, for example-). I suppose I've got to normalize it for myself that reading for leisure should be something I do leisurely, even if I'm trying to read about more interesting topics!
I do also have an hour-long daily commute that I could stand to use for reading more often, but then again, 7 AM is probably the exact kind of time when most kinds of reading would require an amount of pushing through-
anyway! I'll make a note of all these recs and hopefully one of these days I might draw out a plan of engagement from them -- again, thank you very much! in exchange, one of these days I could happily bolster that existentially long rec list of yours by pointing to a few particularly interesting classics of Brazilian literature