what books do you read ?
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Right now, Universe in a Nutshell by Stephen Hawking. Next book might be Super Intelligence by Nick Bostrom or Code, or The Theoretical Minimum or some Python Book.
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Working on āEverything Foreverā, by Giorbran.
Iām going to attempt to read the heart of the buddhas teaching by Thich Nhat Hanh. Wish me luck
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Nonfiction mostly about different topics Iām interested in or on things I donāt know anything about
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Currently reading āThink Fast & Slowā.
Last fun read was CS Lewis āOut of the Silent Planetā. Great sci-fi. The first 30 pages are a bit slow and dated but keep going, the rest was well done.
I just finished a book my friend made me read. It was pretty terrible, but I liked the ending. I think it was called the ring and the crown
I havenāt been able to read many books since my psychotic break. Iām amazed that other people still can! My working memory is impaired and I canāt really do longer sentences anymore. The last adult book I read was Game of Thrones and I canāt remember anything from it. Itās like I never even read it.
So Iāve gone back to grade school books. Like 3rd or 4th grade. Iām currently re-reading the Little House on the Prairie series. Iām hoping that by doing what little reading I can will help strengthen my ability to read more challenging books in the future. Iām not too optimistic as my working memory is pretty ā ā ā ā ā ā , but Iām doing what I can and hoping for the best.
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That book is long and probably hard. Congrats!
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I couldnāt read for a long time, couldnāt focus or comprehend what I was reading. Instead, I just listened to audiobooks of books I already knew and loved, so I didnāt have to grasp new plots and didnāt have to stare at the words on the page.
This has really improved for me in the past few years, though, after I finally got treatment. Now Iām reading all the time, mostly for school, but on my own, too.
For fun, I just finished The Year of Magical Thinking, a book about complicated, delusional grief. I also just read Sweet Land of Liberty, about the civil rights movement in the American North. Iām reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X right now, since heās someone about whom I know little fact and a lot of rumor, and Origins of the Urban Crisis, because it ties in a lot with what Iām studying.
In January and February, I was on a fantasy kick - I read Seraphina, Shadow Scale, Tess of the Road, Uprooted, Deathless, and The Girl in the Tower.
When I was a kid, I read constantly. Itās great to be able to do that again.
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I read a lot of what I call āslice of life fiction.ā
Writers like Jack Kerouac, Raymond Carver, Flannery OāConnor.
I got a book coming soon, Jesusā Son by Denis Johnson.
I like sort of ātoughā writers.
Writers who have struggled in life, love, with substances.
I find that kind of literature relative to my own life.
I also read a lot of non-fiction about sz and mi.
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Iām a Sherlockian but I like many books like Dr. Seuss or those books where Jane runs runs runs or pop up books are cool too. 
I did this, too. I reread the Baby-sittersā Club books and Anne of Green Gables. I really enjoyed them the second time around, too! Iāve spent way too much time with Harry Potter for the same reasons.
Little House sounds lovely when itās time to be kind to your brain.
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I read mainly fantasy books and dystopian novels I feel less weird when I read those.
Plowing through a fantasy seriesā¦The Wells of Ascension by Sanderson. He has some good ideas but itās not the greatest. Iāll get thereā¦a chapter at a time!
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