I have trouble keeping up a reading habit, but I’ve read 5/6ths of the Lord Of The Rings over the last year. Just can’t seem to find the time/motivation to finish it, although I quite enjoyed it and I expect Tolkien to focus even more on the inner struggle of the ringbearer in the final book. That was the biggest advantage of reading the books thus far, over watching the movies.
Apart from that I’ve read the German Romantic (as in era) novella “Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts” by Eichendorff. But despite it checking the boxes for that era and adding to my canon of bourgeois education, it didn’t give me much. It was rather shallow lighthearted entertainment.
But I guess you could say I lean towards the classics. I don’t know if I’d recommend it, for finding stuff that is actually good. But skimming through modern books in my library, I’m often already put off by their covers.
I have trouble keeping up a reading habit, but I’ve read 5/6ths of the Lord Of The Rings over the last year. Just can’t seem to find the time/motivation to finish it, although I quite enjoyed it and I expect Tolkien to focus even more on the inner struggle of the ringbearer in the final book. That was the biggest advantage of reading the books thus far, over watching the movies.
Apart from that I’ve read the German Romantic (as in era) novella “Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts” by Eichendorff. But despite it checking the boxes for that era and adding to my canon of bourgeois education, it didn’t give me much. It was rather shallow lighthearted entertainment.
But I guess you could say I lean towards the classics. I don’t know if I’d recommend it, for finding stuff that is actually good. But skimming through modern books in my library, I’m often already put off by their covers.