With sooooo many options available, I want to read them all at once. I have 20 items on hold with my local library. I’m reading two books currently.
I love when I find a book that’s good enough that I put everything else on hold to savor it.
I enjoy listening to audiobooks on 2x speed every once in a while (Stoner by John Williams most recently) and I enjoy speeding through a physical book that I don’t feel matters much (Maze Runner. Okay but meh).
Currently I’m reading through analog/normal speed the Count of Monte Cristo and Station Eleven. Enjoying both in very different ways.
But I’m looking for a book that would really give me pause, allow me to soak it up on every page and not worry about what else I’m missing out on, time-wise, by basking in every moment. Recently books that gave me this kind of pause are:
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz,
Lonesome Dove,
All the short stories by Ted Chiang.
I don’t care much about the length of the book, but I absolutely crave those times when you feel like every sentence is purposeful. Every word is carefully chosen. And in the end it feels like every letter was designed to tie together into a satisfying ending.
Rebecca by Du Maurier was almost this, but I felt like the twist and the subsequent wind-down and ending weren’t all that interesting. I loved the writing in general though.
by HuckleberryDry2919