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?”

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    Mr Pneumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, I have savored and ignored and neglected that book since 2014? 2015? I’m only maybe 60% finished.

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      1 year ago

      I never got past the first couple pages of IQ84. I never quite found or even know what mood to get myself in to read the book 🫠