20 books as well, 1 collection of essays, 2 nonfiction histories, 2 novellas or self contained short story, 3 graphic novels, 3 memoirs, 3 short story collections, 6 novels. Two five star reads, a YA memoir Free Lunch and a reread of God of Small Things.

> promoting his name and title in Bold on social media

The book is 30 years old and they made a movie out of it, I don't think some anon person mentioning the title is going to put it back on the best seller list. Also if anyone finds that book a treasure they need to seek professional help. 300 pages of detailed descriptions of torturing a young girl to death should not be treasured by anyone.

I’m not quite daring enough to read on the treadmill, but recently I started reading on the spin bike.

I usually end my workout with a cardio session, but I was getting bored to tears while doing my runs so I started reading + cycling instead. I’ve found it so much more enjoyable and productive, and now I wish I started doing it sooner. But if you’ll only be walking I don’t see a problem with the treadmill - I really wouldn’t recommend running + reading (for obvious reasons).

The next book in the 'Haunting Danielle' series by Bobbi Holmes.

This is so not what I normally read - I guess it would be classified as cozy ghost mystery - but I came across the first four books as a set on sale and ended up falling in love with the characters. It's an indie series and it's up to 31 or 32 books. They're relatively short at 250 pages each or so but I really enjoy them.

I've already pre-ordered the next one which comes in April.

Yeah, I had it memorized at some point and would carry a copy in my day planner. IMO, it is a poem that is timeless and relevant at any person’s age.

I had heard it was a scary book, but not much else about it. It's sometimes fun to be scared but torture porn is not fun.

Lol yeah... I'll read a random article like "Australia commissions 400 new coal plants" and I be like we really gon die smh... But yeah this one hit different coz he wrote it for posterity, knowing that by the time we all read it, he'd be long dead and shit. I guess it made me think about my mortality, but also the context of it all makes it sad... and then there's the matter of it being funny thing to say earnestly.

Why 50? If you're just getting into it, that's really high. I feel like 1 a month would be much more reasonable if you really want to have a goal. Or having the goal of just reading for 10 minutes a day or something like that.

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Yes unfortunately:)

But based on a true story. That gives it some value. If it was just somebody's dark fantasy, then I'd say it's trash.

Wipe your butt with it next time toilet paper reaches $10 per roll.

I use regular Goo Gone and it works fine for me. I use the tiniest amount- mine is in a spray bottle and I just use one spray on the cloth. I’ve also heard that you can soften the adhesive on stickers by using a hair dryer to blast warm air on them and that makes removal easier, but I’ve never tried that!

I think we forget that classics become classics because people enjoy reading them! They aren't just academic tomes chosen by professors to uplift and frustrate scholars. For example, I love Dickens's sense of humour and his skill with words. (Charles, not Emily, with a nod to William Styron).

Ah well, that really sucks. I am guessing the situation with censorship is generally the same in works written in your native language?

> wrote more letters in his life than most people ever dream possible

Writing letters back then was essentially like writing online comments. I'd bet the average person writes way more "correspondence" today than in the 1920s if you count messages online and texts, etc.

I'm borderline anti-religious, so no I don't think religious or really any other exemptions shoudl be allowed once you're dead. That being said, if the world insists on it, anyone exempt from donating should be exempt from receiving them as well.

None of this matters because of how far we are from anything like this being a reality, we'll be making organs before anyone considers mandatory donation. What I don't get is why/how a person can be an organ donor, and their family can refuse on their behalf once their dead. That is just crazy to me. If we do have post mortem rights, one would think the decision we made while alive would trump decisions someone else makes for us once we're dead.

Dude was a poet who filled football stadiums. He was important.

Some letters are better than others. The final collection of Charles Bukowski's letters is fantastic.

RIP humanity?

It's my default reaction to even municipal level news lol

I used to feel bad for not liking T.S. Eliot more but as I've gotten older I don't feel so bad any more. He's often impenetrable just for the sake of being impenetrable. I can't pronounce half the languages he adds to his work for no reason, and it's not pleasant having to check end notes five times in four lines.

I LOVE "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," "Preludes" and poems like "Journey of the Magi," but so much of his work is overtly complex for the sake of being complex. You shouldn't have to have as many pages explaining the work as you have pages of actual work.

Does regular Goo Gone work or do you need a specific kind? I have regular Goo Gone. It’s kinda old though and I can’t find an expiration date. I’m not sure if it matters too much. I know there’s a Goo Gone that’s a sticker lifter kind. Would that one be better?

Sure, but the annotations make it easy. And there’s nothing wrong with having a little help.

Coloring a black and white Manga is actually a pretty interesting idea.

I am an archivist and reading people's correspondence has unlocked this fear in me. Luckily, my life isn't that interesting. As much as, professionally, I want people to preserve their life's work, I 100% understand anyone who orders their correspondence destroyed.