Adolfo NetoMar 17
tante

For the first time in years I spend a few hours in the last days reading fiction. It's hard to overstate how good it feels and how stupid I was not to do more of it. Reading a book is just such a wonderful experience.

(I read a lot of books but stuck to non-fiction in the last years)

Mar 17 at 1:44pmWeb
Show threadtanteMar 17
(The new Dresden Files book is good. If you like that kind of stuff which I do.)
Show threadMme de Faune ☳Mar 17

@tante

Yeah! :)
Good to know. But I'm still waiting for the German translation. Then I can read in the evening even when I'm already tired.

Will I have to cry a lot?

Show threadtanteMar 17

@Schwester_Philomena I think the first page answers that for you.

It's a book about grief.

Show threadMme de Faune ☳Mar 17

@tante

I was really hoping there would be a miracle for Murph. Damn it.

Show threadtanteMar 17
@Schwester_Philomena not as far as I have read. But as much as I loved her character, I think it would not be great for the whole character arc. If loss is just undone that invalidates a lot that happened
Show threadMme de Faune ☳Mar 17

@tante

Yeah... but...
I'm torn between two sides: on one hand, I'm a stickler for consistency in storytelling, but on the other, I'm a creature of habit.

It's not easy dealing with me. Not even for me. :/

Show threadConny NaschMar 17
@tante Wow, I have never realised why I stopped the surge towards suicide. It was after I lost my daughter who hung herself. Even now the memory hurts - and that was in 2004. Suicidal people do not think of others in their own pain. The situation: She was in Australia with her father, brother and his new woman and wanted to come home to me in Luxembourg. @Schwester_Philomena
Show threadConny NaschMar 17
@tante this has whetted my appetite to try out the experience of this series. Something I do not usually take part in. Most interesting and thanks 🤔 😁 @Schwester_Philomena
Show threadSoapDogMar 17
@tante so much grief in that book...
Show threadtanteMar 17
@soapdog Yeah. But still it is a story about healing.
Show threadDirk WillrodtMar 17
@tante it is waiting for me at a book store, I just have to pick it up this week.
Related: I was thinking about re-reading all of them, because it was a very long break. Do you find yourself asking "who is this again?" while encountering characters?
Show threadtanteMar 17
@Garonenur yeah. I read some summaries of the last books on Wikipedia etc. to get some basic facts refreshed
Show threadSkybound EchoMar 17
@tante I did the same for several years. Added fiction back in over the last couple years and haven't looked back. Helped me enjoy non-fiction more as well.
Show threadpadraigMar 17
@tante Rediscovering reading fiction for plain fun has been one of my great joys the last two years!
Show threader4z0r 🇺🇦Mar 17
@tante I've only recently strayed from reading fiction before bed (in favor books like "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" and "Enshitification") and I have to say it was not a good choice. The books are great and important, but sometimes (especially in the evening) fiction just takes you on a well needed journey out of this mad world.
Show threadAnthony CowleyMar 17
@tante @demofox Had the same thing happen to me some years ago where I hadn't noticed I'd stopped reading fiction. Getting back into it was such a breath of fresh air, and now I know how important it is to me.
Show threadShae ErissonMar 17

@acowley I'm re-reading The Sharing Knife by Lois McMaster Bujold and it's so good!

What are you reading?

Show threadAnthony CowleyMar 17
@shapr Currently reading Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz. Detective story with some interesting meta narrative aspects (at least the first book in the series did, I’m still fairly early in this one).
Show threadteacher ciatMar 17
@tante I've been reading LeGuin lately. Putting your mind in fictional soles every now and then does wonders to the mind
Show threadDieVeraMar 17

@tante
Reading fiction is like rebooting my mind.
Sometimes I have to force me to do.

Recommend Ted Chiang and Dispossessed by le Guin

Show threadVoidZeroOne   Mar 17

@tante I usually read a fiction and a non-fiction book at the same time alas the older I get the less I care about non-fiction and usually get those just as e-books.

I tend to read for an hour before I go to sleep. As I happen to be a rather fast reader I can easily get a couple of chapters of each done. So I tend to go through 6 books per week and try to do 2 new ones and one re-read.