Me too!

A better room-tidying book is Decluttering at the Speed of Life. Otherwise, what were you wanting to learn/why were you interested?

That's great, thank you again and have a wonderful day!

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Jordan Peterson has mastered the art of talking a lot while saying absolutely nothing. He's 100% filler, 0% substance. You're better off going on a search online, in a library, in databases, etc. using specific terms of stuff that interests you.

Just finished reading it and loved it, was much funnier than I expected it to be and I really sympathised with the Holden character, again not what I expected with how people had spoke about the book and about him being a massive moaner. Felt genuinely gutted when I'd finished it. Also echo OP's sentiments about Phoebe, such a great character.

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I don’t track my reading anymore because the moment I start tracking and counting, it becomes competitive and that is not the point of reading for me.

I agree that it’s overrated. My cousin was adamant that it was the cutest thing she ever read and I saw it recommended often on TikTok and Insta.

I really couldn’t vibe with it - I thought it was boring and I was not invested in the relationship at all.

A lot of his ideas are really outdated forms of psychology and psychoanalysis, so if youre wanting to learn, other sources are best. Hes basically just doing generic self help (not a criticism of self help books, but thats pretty much all hes doing) and its under a layer of debunked Jungian psychology. Id give Peterson a skip

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One of my favorite books I go back to every year!

This year I started keeping a log of which books I’ve read, mostly just to keep track and keep myself focused on reading daily if possible. I have a legal pad, and after I’ve read enough of a book to decide if I’m going for the whole thing or not, I add it to the pad. Author, book name, date started — date finished. Then to the left of the entry on the left of the margin I write the page count

Wow. Never even thought of this. I will now do this. Thanks!

Very simply...I record the title/author by year read, although sometimes I forget to put a book on the list...And I only keep a list to see how many I read a year & so I don't get one that I've already read.

And people say I'm an asshole when I tell them Canada is Cringe: The Country.

Yeah i usually go to youtube and type in 'X ambience', X being whatever setting/vibe suits my current book. The videos are usually a couple hours long amd there's a surprisingly large selection to pick from. Anything from libraries to spaceships to medieval villages!

https://www.fantasticfiction.com/

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Love this site. If you enter an author or book you like, click on one of their books, and below that are similar options. Its listed as visitor also like these books. Works great!

I'm not OP, but Black Swan Green is lovely. The main character has a stutter and as a result the book totally nails what it feels like to grow up with a speech impediment. (Spoiler alert: having a speech impediment in middle school sucks!) It also just nails what it feels like to be a kid in general, where your opinion of the adults around you (not to mention your entire sense of self) starts to evolve in weird, unexpected ways.

On my list to be read soon.

I use Goodreads and StoryGraph

I either listen to lofi hip hop or smooth jazz

My Mom did this. When she passed away, I grabbed those notebooks and they're the best connection to her I can imagine. I've just started reading again myself after a long hiatus and am starting my own notebook.

Oh I love Riddley Walker, if im remembering it has some elements from a clockwork orange which is one of my all time favorite stories. I appreciate your point on not getting hung up on trying to understand every minute detail and just trying to just get through the piece which is what I'll end up doing.

I love that book. Allende is a master. Incredible book