Absolutely try to finish The Dawn of Everything. Idk for me, Graeber is so incredibly nice to his readers that once I'm on a roll, I get so much stimulus out of having my perception twisted again and again and it's hard to put down. I was almost the opposite of you - after being a big fiction reader in my childhood, I pretty much abandoned it in my adult life because non-fiction was always just so much more relevant. After I did War & Peace in 2021 I got my love for it back and now try to keep a healthy balance. What's your favourite SFF?

I've never been a serious reader of poetry either. If you find anything good feel free to hit me up!

I was going to list some specific books I have sitting around that I’ve been meaning to read, but as the list got longer and longer I realized what I really mean is I’m resolved to less screen-time, more reading. I used to be a much hungrier reader than I am now and social media, podcasts, and video games has really swallowed up that space. Reading’s just so much more active than doing any of those things, it’s easier to turn on a TV show and then just look at Twitter while it plays in the background.

For sure. I find if I'm drained at all, it's just so much easier to scroll social media than commit to a book. Also, scrolling can fill very short gaps of time, from thirty seconds to a few minutes, where jumping back into a full book is a bit too much whiplash. But forcing myself to read longer form has been good for my brain, and I think it gets easier and easier. I still listen to podcasts, but I can only focus on them if I have something else to do with my hands, so I rarely just sit and listen.

I saw a tweet today where someone said they read 411 books last year. At first I assumed it must be a joke, maybe a reference I don’t understand, but there was a follow up tweet and it didn’t seem like a joke. I cannot comprehend reading that many books, even if reading books was literally the only thing one did with all their time every day. Maybe if by books they mean 50 page Kindle Unlimited novellas, I could see that being doable.

I'm curious how much they get out of each of them. I could probably do that if they were all novellas yeah, or if reviewing books was my job, but that would just strip the fun out of it.