Dear bot. Wifes da was feb 19th

Gunnlaðarsaga by Svava Jakobsdóttir has always been one of my favorite Icelandic books. More info: https://bokmenntaborgin.is/en/literature-web/books/gunnloths-tale

Probably taste. There's complex books that I just breeze through and simple books that I just cannot finish.

Finding something to enjoy about a book is key to reading it and digesting it.

I thought I hated annotating books (me personally - to each their own! Not about respect to books, more about feeling like I was forcing myself to make notes and not just focusing on the book) til I read a self-help book - those, I really loved making highlights in.

Its just a matter of taste. You enjoy the book so you are motivated to continue reading it, others dont, and arent. I adore Thomas Manns The Magic Mountain, I personally consider it one of the best books ever written. Part of the way through there are philosophical discussions between the Jesuit and the Professor and some of these are both complex and wordy...Ive had to read through those parts 2 or 3 times to understand what they are putting forward. If I didnt love the book so much, Id likely have given up at that point, and I wouldnt blame anyone that did, love for the rest carried me through. So yes, just taste.

I've never met anyone who didn't find GR a challenge - i've read it twice. It would be a challenge to simply sum the novel up in a few sentences. This sounds like a you thing

From a NYTimes review of the book: "Gravity's Rainbow is bonecrushingly dense, compulsively elaborate, silly, obscene, funny, tragic, pastoral, historical, philosophical, poetic, grindingly dull, inspired, horrific, cold, bloated, beached and blasted." In other words, it's not everyone's cup of tea. Do you really think that Pynchon was trying to write something that would be? I think this is part of being in a book club. You'll find that people have different tastes. I'm reading Blood Meridian with a book club. I hate it. I understand it, but I don't understand why it was written, why we are reading it, or why people think it's a classic. But other people love it. It's nothing to do with who is smarter than who. It's just our personal reaction to the book.

Yes, it's different tastes. You enjoy the book, so you find it easier to read than they do. It's probably not a difference in comprehension, it's a difference in motivation.

I love my Kindle Oasis. At first I thought I'd hate the asymmetrical design, but the way it's weighted fits right into one hand, so I don't get strain from propping a book open with my thumb and don't have to change position every time I want to turn a page, just press a button or swipe the screen. It's backlit, so I can read in the dark. E-ink is easy on the eyes, and of course I can fit a whole library of books in it. The best part is it's water resistant (I think one of the main reasons I upgraded from my original kindle) so I can read in the bath and not worry about getting a book wet. So relaxing! I hadn't been able to do that before.

The only complaint I could have is that the battery doesn't last quite as long as my old kindle, but that one wasn't back lit. These days I go long stretches between reading too, so I notice the battery level less.

I used to read on my phone, but definitely prefer the kindle for books. It fits right in my purse so it's really convenient.

For more modern, I like the crime/mystery series -

• Ragnar Jónasson
• Yrsa Sigurðardóttir
• Arnaldur Indriðason

I think it’s more to do with your personality and preferences than anything else. You could have the same differences in appreciation and comprehension with most other things. Everyone’s a tiny bit different, and some gaps are larger than others. I cherish when I love things that others don’t get. It makes them feel more personal and special.

The Adrian Mole series was huge for me as a kid and then I went through a big Tom Robbins phase in my teenage years and have never been able to take anything seriously since then.

In the past I bought more than I could read. Now I have books on my TBR that I don't want to read anymore because I'm a different reader then I was 5 years ago. But it's your money and if you believe you'll still be interested in reading them in the future, then go for it.

I read Egil's Saga while touring Iceland a couple years ago. There's a nice museum in Borgarnes which has an exhibition on Egil's adventures. I picked up a copy of the book and finished it on my flight home.

The stranger by Albert camus. Really helped me understand why I felt the way I did. In a weird way, mersault helped me feel less alone in the world.

Any middle grade book that features a self aware character that's edgy. I've forgotten them by now, but Percy Jackson was one I liked.

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i can read two books at once when the Genre is completly different. Like Horror and Romance or something like that.

But when i was in school i never read the assigned readings so idk if this is a good advice for your problem

The Saga of Grettir the Strong. If you're going to read anything medieval, Icelandic sagas are the way to go.

Sjón has been one of my favourite icelandic writers. The blue fox is an amazing novel.

After watching Ever After, I found a copy of Utopia by Thomas Moore in the school library and read it. Definitely found it interesting, I don’t think it influenced a change in personality.

I've heard about some, but I haven't read any, thanks for the advice)

Nick adams stories (made me a writer) -hemmingway

Ugly american (gave me the political insight to ask questions) - lederer and burdick

Song of solomon (we re all in this Together. We have to be.) - morrison

As i lay dying (the past is present) - faulkner (beloved by morrison may drive this point home better but AILD was first for me)

Handmaiden s tale (freedom and rights are fragile) - atwood

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