What are you reading at the moment?

I'm currently reading George MacDonald's Phantastes and Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote - about halfway through each and making slow progress on the latter... but making progress!

The first four-hundred-or-so pages of Don Quixote have been an adventure. Always fun, increasingly beautiful, and so unapologetically ridiculous. It's required school reading and I kinda thought it'd be painful and dry, so, pleasant surprise there. ^^

Phantastes is like a pretty, long-forgotten dream you had when you were very little and knew how to play-pretend that the ordinary held a secret sanctity, because it did. It makes me want to dig up my Hans Christian Andersen... or wander off into a wood and get hopelessly lost.

What are you reading right now?

Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace !!

I know it's heralded as one of the most pretentious books ever, but I like it so far! I'm only halfway through, but it's shaping up to be a good book! Though, lots of footnotes... pages and pages of them! :cries: It's not the easiest to keep up with, but it's vvv complex and profound. I think it's excellent at writing serious issues like mental illness and substance abuse, among many many other things.

Yes, it is pretentious too :') Self-indulgent and demanding are more ways to describe it. But. I think it's worth reading if you're into stuff like that!

i've been reading blood meridian by cormac mccarthy; super brutal, super poetic. i read it before a long time ago and it's like. woah, so that's where my love of western stuff came from! the only bad thing i can think of right now is that mccarthy uses the bare minimum for punctuation. that gets annoying sometimes.

i like to read novels. They give me much information and a lot of fun.

I've read like fifteen volumes of Bungo Stray Dogs last night, so if you like manga, check it out! I know many people have seen the anime, but I feel like the manga was way less about fights with superpowers and more about psychology of these characters and how their abilities affect their life in their world. I just started Dry by Neal Shusterman and I'm pretty excited for it!

Rereading the Count of Monte Cristo!! It’s one of my favorites hehe

I'm making it a goal to read every Pulitzer Prize winner in fiction. I've picked up One of Ours by Willa Cather, written before they had a fiction category. it's supposedly a coming of age novel about a farm boy from Nebraska. I like simplistic novels, so I'm excited to read something where I can just turn my brain off for a little.