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Obviously everyone's attention span is shortening. the best I can do is read while having lunch out (once or twice a week). so short stories are the best format for this because they're the right length of a meal! I recommend anything by Joan Didion
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just find the thinnest lil guy you can and eat him up (i recommend south and west by joan didion, bluets by maggie nelson, crush by richard sike)
Jan 25, 2024
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I love getting back into reading after a long period of inactivity by reading a couple short novels or novellas. It's nice to feel like you're making progress at each session of reading and getting a more condensed experienced.
Apr 17, 2024
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I think a lot of us want to be able to read longer material, but our attention spans are fried for various reasons. For me, it was the fatal combo of doing a reading-intensive college degree that ate away at my time + social media brainrot + a high level of anxiety that makes me feel generally restless and unfocused. I used to be a huge reader, so I've tried jumping right back into reading long novels multiple times. This hasn't seemed to work in any lasting way. I've had more luck recently with starting small.
Even if you set your goal as: "I want to read something longer than tweets or social media posts," it's progress! Zines, articles, Substack posts, anything just a little bit longer that your brain can latch deeper into will help rebuild your attention. Short story collections and novellas have also been helpful for me, especially if you pick a topic or genre that you're really interested in. I'm still on some forms of social media, so I haven't gone cold-turkey. But I do feel like incorporating longer-form material again, even mixed in with scrolling, has helped my brain so much already. It's refreshing to hand-select what I want to read and give my attention to, instead of letting an algorithm serve me topics. I didn't realize how much depth I was missing in exchange for the breadth of the internet!
Jan 19, 2025
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My friend/sister Rapha inherited some of my precious books when I moved to Portugal, and reminded me last week of my scribbles as she picked up Alexandra Coelho to read. It's nice for friends because they get a glimpse of what moved you, a little snippet of your soul. It's nice for yourself as book owner because using a pen or highlighter is psychopath behaviour
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I'm not a big fan of snacks -- I prefer actual meals where I end up overeating because I spent too much time between meals, not healthy I know, sue me 🥴 but once in a while the clouds part and I'll find luxurious truffle chips in the supermarket (usually fancier one) and I'll shamelessly indulge
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great to pass the time if you're fidgetty and find it hard to just sit and watch something. Last night I chopped all the way through the new Mobland episode. 8 garlic heads!! I'd also chop them but then I remembered I have a mixer
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