2024-01-26 18:33:03
The right reading for the endlessly long January: A comprehensive book. If only there wasn’t enough time for it.
Now January is still not over (or as I recently read on Insta: “It’s hard to believe it’s already January 45th”), and in keeping with the endlessly long month, I’m reading a correspondingly extensive book. (Eh by one of my favorite authors, very moving, very good, but also very long.)
It’s impossible to say whether I’ll finish reading the book this month (or even this quarter), but everyday life somehow robs you of a surprising amount of reading time. I think that the right to a daily reading hour should be enshrined in the constitution (what ever happened to the daily gym class?), then a tome like this wouldn’t be a problem.
Long Series? Yes!
The saying “If a book is well written I always find it too short” (which, surprisingly, is not attributed to Winston Churchill but to Jane Austen) has also faltered a bit for me. The weight of such a 1000-page plus tome should not be underestimated, especially when you have to maneuver such a thing in your hands when you are tired in bed in the evening. I may have been wishing for a Kindle for the very first time these days. (At the same time, I also unintentionally started an extremely long audio book, but only in passing.)
I actually love endlessly long novels, as well as series with eight seasons of 24 episodes each, while a movie that lasts more than two hours (and everyone does that these days) seems far too long to me. A strange contradiction, I know.
If you have finished watching a long series that has accompanied you for months or have finished reading a series of books, you often fall into a state for which there should be a word of its own (in English there is the beautiful “I am in- between books”): The more impressive what you read (or watched), the harder it is to get into a new series or novel. At least I won’t have this problem for the next three or four months thanks to my never-ending story. With that in mind: Have a nice reading weekend!
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