Mine’s The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Thick books never stopped me from reading nonstop before, but there are entries in the book that just has me stopping and taking time to mull things over.
Also, sharing this excerpt: “Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”
I have a 1000-page Lovecraft anthology next to my bed. I bought it last spring and I’m only about 250 pages in. He has a couple different types of stories and it switches back and forth every story, so I finish a story I love to hit a dull one and then I close the book for a while.
Sometimes Lovecraft seems like he just published anything that made it from his head to paper, huh? Lol