Don't Like - Reading Books

I’d like to like reading books more than I do. But in truth, I find the task of picking up a book to usually be daunting and exhausting. Not in some existential way, but in a “do I really want to spend the next 300 - 800 pages reading this thing” kind of way. It’s a terrible way to feel about the most dignified form of learning. Reading a book is a powerful corrective to the corrosive effects of television and social media. It’s also the best way to use your imagination with help from another person. You read what’s going on and imagine a whole world in your head, a little movie that you get to direct. It’s super cool when you fully consider how many slightly different visions of every book everyone has had. As a person who constantly projects ideas onto the world that would seem up my alley, but I can’t seem to crack being into books. I read plenty of other things. I love reading articles and short stories, which are often in books but somehow feel different from regular books. I also enjoy listening to audio books, which maybe-sort-of-kind-of does (not?) count. But when it comes to sitting down and turning pages, I read the same sentences too many times and lose my place on the page. I’m highly open to changing this opinion. So pass along any good books you think I might like.