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Working from home, (far) more birds in my garden because less planes and less cars, fiction reading (took a break for 10 years, now back to 2 books/day), readin
by tluyben2 6y ago
Working from home, (far) more birds in my garden because less planes and less cars, fiction reading (took a break for 10 years, now back to 2 books/day), reading while walking in the empty forest, walking 10km/day.
Guess the biggest is the walking and reading at the same time.
- jhrozek 6y agoI also got back to fiction reading lately and I’m immensely enjoying it. But..do you really read two books A DAY?
- tluyben2 6y agoYes, average fiction or biographies etc I do. If it is harder (hard literature, much thicker, books that are not in Dutch, English or German ( I try to reread books I read in English in Spanish ) or science books which are theoretical like physics or CS with formulas etc, then it obviously will be (much) slower. I noticed myself watching more and more fiction TV shows and found them too slow while being not dense enough and then I remembered I used to not watch anything and just read books in that time.
- psychiatrist24 6y agoThe biggest problem for me would be to find enough good books to read.
- pierre 6y agoFor me the real issue to finding good book is that I will not think about reading them due to my current context. To solve that I found 2 way : - I challenge myself to read a book from each country/region on earth, often finding new themes I get passionate about. - I start buying every book from a given editor, also leading to great discovery / extending my horizon. (There should be a startup allowing me to subscribe to an editor :) )
- tluyben2 6y agoI read a lot of crap and try to read the good stuff in different languages. The crap is usually not as bad as I expected (compared to what is considered 'good', so it is usually quite fun anyway).
- cseleborg 6y agoSame here, after many years of almost exclusively reading business and self-improvement books, I felt the need to enjoy reading more, partly to offset the temptation to watch Netflix in the evening. Now, after 8 Tom Clancy novels straight, I feel again some interest in more intellectually stimulating reading, but the "break" certainly did good.
- tluyben2 6y agoYeah, I do mix the easy books with, mostly, compsci books and papers. When I started reading again, just the fiction was enough, but that cannot last. It is still very enjoyable.