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?”
The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. It’s been pending at around 33% finished for a few months. I’ve started and finished 25 books in the meantime. If I pick it back up, I’m going to need to start over.
I think it’s a book where I’m going to need to simultaneously listen to the audiobook in order to absorb it.