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?”

  • Nixieish@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m not currently reading this, but it did make me think of the book that took me an entire year to read: Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian. It was meandering and philosophical and that’s not typically my thing which it why it took me so long, but I still enjoyed it on some level and there was some beautiful writing throughout.

    “You should know that there is little you can seek in this world, that there is no need for you to be so greedy, in the end all you can achieve are memories, hazy, intangible, dreamlike memories which are impossible to articulate. When you try to relate them, there are only sentences, the dregs left from the filter of linguistic structures.”