{"id":336,"date":"2016-05-08T01:27:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T05:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=336"},"modified":"2016-05-08T01:27:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T05:27:34","slug":"to-read-or-not-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"To read, or not to read?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This afternoon I was struggling to read a highly-praised novel that I was hating. I thought it was just me, that I was failing as a reader, so I kept trudging along, page after terrible page. I had promised myself to read today, and read I would. After about thirty minutes I realized I had finished several chapters. I didn\u2019t hate it anymore. But I wasn\u2019t really reading it either. I was actually just ignoring it. I could not remember anything I had read. I even clicked back a few pages only to discover the words were entirely foreign to me. \u00a0I finally accepted defeat and closed the book forever.\"old-books\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Despite all of that I still wanted to read. After I deleted the daydream-inducing novel, I searched through the other titles I had available. I finally noticed the icon for Neil Gaiman\u2019s new collection of short stories. I don\u2019t know why I waited so long to start reading Trigger Warning<\/em>. It has been on my Kindle for months, unopened. It is opened now, and it is delightful.<\/p>\n

Random musings from this week.<\/p>\n