What is everyone reading this week?
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Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed? – Annie Dillard

Oh I've been away from here for so long. Phone broke, had to use old crappy phone that wouldn't install anything... but I'm back! Are people still here?? 😅

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. - Anaïs Nin

@golgaloth Ooo that truly sounds so cool!!

@golgaloth slow can be good too... there's some magic is slow! What's it about?

Silence suggests a sudden lacking, grayness entwined in dreams that mingle with life, rising through vast stages, ages, eons-the eternal longing and restlessness that keeps me awake, upon an end table near my bed just a glimpse, as I reach forever into an immense empty space #poetry #poem #writing

I have been away from here for long- how terrible! What's been happening in the #writerdon lately?
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@wordswithnima well I'm pleased that the onions haven't been all genetically modified which was my speculation haha but I'm sorry you've had to endure the watery sting for so long 😩 those cruel and sadistic vegetables deserve to be eaten.

@pimoore @inkynibs gaming the system! Yes! That's what it feels like to me too haha

@WriterLP Slow. I take my time and feel no pressure to get to the end in a hurry. My goal, usually, is to learn from my reading about how to write prose, rather than finishing the book. I read a few at a time, too. Sometimes to myself, sometimes out loud.

@oguzhanaydin do you feel you enjoy the reading more when you do slow down or when you're reading quickly?

@inkynibs slow reading makes reading a real pleasure for me. Fast reading feels like I'm making it about outcomes haha

@Apocryphiliac yes content does matter actually. One of the books I read fast was a "lighter" sort of fiction and I didn't feel I needed to digest or ponder anything so I guess that's why I flew through it but I too usually read things that I need to take time with. I can also retain great detail if I read slow enough but if I read fast I lose so much- it's like my brain marks importance by how long I sit with it haha

@nlowell you don't enjoy reading fast? I kind of force myself to slow down if I'm rushing through so I can sit with the details longer. I think our binge watching culture has made me read faster but I consciously have to slow myself down because in the end I feel more apart of the world I'm reading and I find more magic that way.

I read 2 books during the first 5 days of January and now I'm back to taking several weeks to finish a book. I don't know what happened during Jan 1st and 5th but it gave me a taste of what those hardcore "reading goal" people must do. Weirdly I don't feel I retained as much from those first 2 books... they feel less solid in my head. I think I need that slow reading to digest my books. Are you a fast or slow reader?
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Anyone ever feel like America needs to be switched off then on again?

@AuthorMarkMiller have been doing this the past couple nights and it's a simple but powerful joy haha

@jasonpettus that water reflection is incredible!! 😍😍