What are you reading?
I tried to read Love in the Time of Cholera in Spanish. It got to be too much because I had to stop & translate so many words.
I tried to read GGM's other classic (
Hundred Years of Solitude) in
English but it got to be too much. I got the point (I think) after reading 30% and had no interest in reading the rest.
Also tried to read some other classics in 2022:
Catch-22,
Lolita,
The Plague, and
My Man Jeeves. The same thing happened with those: I appreciated the prose style and plot design, but felt no desire to finish. I finally understand why
Lolita is a classic instead of smut, and enjoyed it very much, but it got repetitive. Maybe too much TV has rewired my attention span.
Highlight of 2022 reading for me was
The Expanse series; it is neither new nor classic, but I am very glad I found it. Also several older books on consciousness, including
Waking Up and
Free Will by Sam Harris and
Conscious by Annaka Harris.
Best new 2022 fiction for me was
Cloud Cuckoo Land. Good but not great; interesting mixed history-and-future time model.
Best new 2022 non-fiction was
An Immense World about animal senses. Second was
Adventurer, a new biography of Casanova.
Cinema Speculations by Tarantino was also fun.
The shelf for 2023 is bare so appreciate the recommendations in the posts above.