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’ve been reading Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota series very slowly over the last few years. I just started the fourth book. I feel like I have to read every page two or three times, and often stop to look things up. So far it’s been worth it.
That’s a great series but it absolutely does take some attention to read it. I can’t imagine how it must have been to write.
That’s a great series but it absolutely does take some attention to read it. I can’t imagine how it must have been to write.