/lit/ - Literature

>>13860256
Did you also find the ending to be shockingly sad?
For some reason even though I knew it was coming for close to 100 pages I felt more sad when I finished this than any book I’ve ever read

>work on chapter of book for weeks
>feel really good about it
>check over it repeatedly and each time think 'damn, this is the best thing I've ever written'
>reread it after leaving it alone for a month
>it's somehow become unsalvageable shit

>have a beautiful and caring gf
>still miss the bitch who broke my heart five years ago
books for this feel?

>>11779281
>tfw you'll never be a charming man

I've just turned 19 and realized that I never really had a childhood. Most of my younger years were spent between both equally shitty parents. On one hand my mother, although I love her dearly; is a helpless, lethargic waste of space. Then on the other is my father; a hypocritical and pitiful man finally reaching old age. I lived with my mother until her postpartum depression finally got to her, then I was taken away to my father. Whose constant insults only made me develop a inferiority complex. I've never had a girlfriend or any type of romance for that matter, which is like a knife driven into my guts because all I long for is young love. I can only be happy that I caught myself at such a young age, and now realize what I have to do to become a better person. It can only get better from here on right?

how do i make time for reading? i'm a brainlet and get easily distracted by social media among other things