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 struggled through Gideon the ninth on audio for about 6 months, gave up and read the rest in a day and loved it… in fact the 2nd book is probably the best of the 100+ I’ve read this year
Turns out descriptions of slowly rotting furniture and internal monologues about how you want to rip someone’s “white heart out of their chest and bite it” (yes she’s losing her mind) is less draining in paper form