What are you reading in 2024?

[Pedantic]

There was a point in my life when I would read more than one book at a time. At this point I think they'd all have to be non-narrative nonfiction for me to do that. Part of how many days a book will take me to read is how many hours per day I'll give it; that's a large part of what I'll have to change about what I'm doing when I address those large unread books on my shelves. Well, that and the fact that I'm not super-great about stopping a book before I finish it, and my sleep cycle really doesn't need that sort of disruption at this point.

I can absolutely empathize with that. Reading is an abnegative, borderline dissociative experience for me. I use to routinely have a problem where I'd accidentally put the book down, and then have a jarring moment where the narrative suddenly stopped and it would take me a second to sort out what happened.

In no small part, I am reading to make time go away, which can have unfortunate consequences when it returns with full force.

 

[Autumnal]

My secret is serious disability. Which I don’t really recommend as a way to get more reading time.

 

[prabe]

My secret is serious disability. Which I don’t really recommend as a way to get more reading time.

Mine is forced retirement. I can't recommend the "forced" part.

 

[trappedslider]

Mine is forced retirement. I can't recommend the "forced" part.

Are you the kid from the Monster.com super bowl commercial?

 

[prabe]

Are you the kid from the Monster.com super bowl commercial?

I don't think I am. I mean, it wasn't a life-goal or anything. We were a federal contractor and the agency we contracted with yanked the work out from under us.

 

[trappedslider]

I don't think I am. I mean, it wasn't a life-goal or anything. We were a federal contractor and the agency we contracted with yanked the work out from under us.

I don't know how to feel about the fact that you knew what I was referring to.

 

[prabe]

I don't know how to feel about the fact that you knew what I was referring to.

I would have preferred to claw my way into middle management.

 

[JEB]

I'm hoping to reach 98 books by the end of the year, but doubting I'll make it at this point. (Maybe I need a stack of graphic novels.)

 

[Sword Devil]

The Hellbound Heart, by Clive Barker. The book Hellraiser was based on. An energetic, lurid short horror novel well worth the read for any fan of the movie or genre.

 

[Autumnal]

I love the immensely evocative setting, and wish the movies had hewn closer to it.

With each peal the bulb’s light was becoming more revelatory. By it, he saw the east wall flayed; saw the brick momentarily lose solidity and blow away; saw, in that same instant, the place beyond the room from which the bell’s din was issuing. A world of birds was it? Vast black birds caught in perpetual tempest? That was all the sense he could make of the province from which—even now—the hierophants were coming—that it was in confusion, and full of brittle, broken things that rose and fell and filled the dark air with their fright.