I'm still at my first book of the year, Dune Chapterhouse. I'm towards the end of the book. I sometimes get an emotional attachment to hold onto the book and not finish it, so I only managed to read like 5min a day before bed this week.
Here's a un-asked-for recommendation from someone who rarely reads novels because truth is weirder than fiction: "Taiwan Travelogue" by Yang Shuang-zi.
Me too. Around half were from the @scalzi.com bundle that I got in December, and some of the rest were Bobiverse, so most were pretty light, easy reads. I usually binge an author's back catalogue when I find one I like.
My wife @eloi.se is reading Venomous Lumpsucker and says it's good. I've said I'll read it when she's done. The problem is she's been reading it for well over a year now. She's literally made more progress writing a book than reading one.
The one trick to read faster is to literally read faster. Like consume more words per second and realize your brain can still process them.
One common barrier to this is “subvocalization” a fancy term for saying the word in your head. You can simply not do that and read MUCH faster. Try it!
That’s been my strategy as well. Read more books and less news to keep my sanity. And I have also read 12 books since Jan 1. I may run out of books in these 4 years.
His "Dark Sun" is also worth reading. He manages to keep multiple dimensions of the H-bomb story spinning simultaneously -- the US, the Soviets, the science, the spies, the politics...
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One common barrier to this is “subvocalization” a fancy term for saying the word in your head. You can simply not do that and read MUCH faster. Try it!