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Perhaps you need to rethink your reading goals. How about instead of having a goal that encourages you to read as quickly as possible, you give yourself a period of time when you can only read one book. Pick the book, look at the page count, divide by ten, and that is the number of days where you can read nothing else, but only that book. If you finish the book well before the deadline, you read it again, perhaps this time taking notes about the books contents and structure, and questions you have about what the author meant or overlooked. By the time you're finished you can be satisfied that you gave it all the time and attention it deserves, detached from any desire to compete with others on how many are dead, however superficially.

It took two years for me to force myself all the way through it. You have the patience of a saint. I salute you.

I loved the first 3rd? Hated the middle part and just started to enjoy it again, however I'm not a good reader and I am having a break and reading shorter/easier books.

My biggest struggle is keeping up with the names.

"Stop endangering the children, or I'm going to blow up a school library."

This is something Eric Cartman would think to do.

You selecting a default for a fantasy world still has its own implications about your point of view. You get that, right? It doesn’t matter that it’s not the real world, what you choose as the baseline for your own made-up world reflects something about its creator, whether you want it to or not.

“i ThInK iTs A rEaSoNaBlE cOmPlAiNt If ThE fAntAsY WoRlD iS cLeArLy bAsEd On EUrOpE oR EnGlAnD”

I haven’t even read the comments yet but I assume someone said some dumb shit like that.

This type of thing always generates some hot takes so I’m sharing the ALA definition of a book ban

> A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials. Challenges do not simply involve a person expressing a point of view; rather, they are an attempt to remove material from the curriculum or library, thereby restricting the access of others.

Emphasis mine because that’s the important part. Collection management is not censorship. Library weeding is not censorship.

Trying to limit what other people in the community have access to IS censorship.

E: this is sometimes called soft censorship.

I'm not sure if cutting off social media is the solution. I think it will help but I think the big problem is your self esteem right now. Even if you aren't comparing yourself to others, there's gonna be that voice in your head telling you that you can't do anything good.

I think you need to channel more time into looking for work - (which is also totally soul sucking, many places expect way too much (lots of experience even at entry level) or they don't even bother to let you know it you are hired or they ask ridiculous interview questions.) I think part of your issue is that you feel bad about yourself right now.

The other thing is maybe getting some fresh air more, look after yourself, make sure you drink water and go on walks.

If you do want to stay on social media try looking at other things. Tell yourself you'll allow X amount of time looking at reading content, and the rest you can look at recipes or other categories.

Read what you actually want to read. Get rid of the notion of "having to" and "essential read" and decide for yourself what YOU like, not what you think you have to read.

Studies show time and time again that it depresses people yet "we" all seem to use it. If you don't it's considered weird. It confuses me. Why do I need to see someone's dinner or read their little anecdote about what happened during their phone call? It's absolutely whacky and I don't think it brings people together at all!

If you don't mind me asking, how often does revisiting work for you? Generally I've found if something doesn't grab me it probably just isn't for me.

I'm surprised this even exists. I guess the original sold well? I haven't got this so I can't comment on liking it or not, maybe it just feels like a cash grab? The author didn't put in as much effort? Just a guess as to why you feel that way or maybe it's more if the same?

This is the next book I’m reading. I’m 25. Just got into literature and have thouroughly enjoyed Notes from Undergroud and the brothers k by Dostoevsky so far. Time to pay Tolstoy his respect as well

I was spending an unhealthy amount of time on my computer this past week and I wanted to read something to get out of that habit so I reread Fahrenheit 451 and yeah that was an fitting situation to reread it! Broke that habit real quick after that one!

I still haven't read it. I definitely need to try it out. I even got the movie because Gregory Peck was a great actor. But I will need to read the book first.

Like you I loved the first book. But I struggled with this one. I thought I might come back to it in a while, when I'm in a different frame of mind, to see if I apprecite it more.

That "exact day" thing has happened to me when I played ace attorney. It really is a cool coincidence!

I've enjoyed certain books more than I think I normally would. Example, as a palette cleanse, if I've read a tonne of thrillers and then need a change, I will probably like the next book I read more than I otherwise would.

I also think some books have come along at the right time, organically.

I have tried reading Christmas books at Christmas, but haven't tried reading a book about road trips on a road trip. I like that idea, but I think I enjoy being able to be present in another world without having to go anywhere. I can sit on our couch or in our bed and read and jump into a whole other world.

I re-read it in the last year. I think I plodded through, just to finish it. I don't remember it now as being so long, but the different episodes are interesting and worth persevering. Can't say that I loved it, bu glad I reaqd it. It's one that you can pick up and put down as you feel like it.

Pick up? It more kinda increments.

/r/noshitsherlock

I have this issue with my husband. He watches TikToks in bed every night without headphones and it drives me, a reader who likes quiet, insane. I started listening to reading playlists on my headphones at night and the music has made my reading mich more epic and calming than otherwise. Now I even do it sometimes when no one else is around.

Books at public libraries have always been curated; the growing public interest in the type of content being promoted or withheld by tax-and-state-funded institutions isn't a bad thing.

Yep

Yep, definitely know the type