/lit/ - Literature

Books about NEETdom?

Whenever the Monsoon season comes it makes me melancholic for places and people of long ago. I am from Pakistan and since my childhood the only contact that I had with that weary feeling of "past civilization" was visiting the old Anglo buildings and Railways stations. I love their architecture. I am not nostalgic for British Raj in politic or socioecomic(or maybe I am, my granddad use to say that white man was better than whatever we got after "independence") sense but as a pure melancholic romantic/aesthetic idea of long forgotten people. I was very doubtful that if any outsider can understand this special flavor of monsoon melancholy which is unique to sub-continent. But reading WG Sebald's The Rings of Saturn blew me away, it came very close. From this I suspect that English have maybe this melancholic aspect to their culture/character.

I am looking for book recommendations which invoke these feels maybe some memoirs or history books or whatever written during the British Raj period.

>tfw OP reminded me I'm Belgian

>>20584344
Another blogpost thread? Okay.
>finish sleeping on Friday late afternoon
>waste time online
>ate healthy food previously in day
>wasted rest of evening online
>start up update scripts for my trading systems at midnight
>listen to audiobooks and drift in and out of sleep for 20 hours
>woke up on Saturday evening
>wrote more of my long term novel project
>wasted time online
>was feeling disgusting
>wasted rest of time online
>it is now Sunday morning
>watched Youtube videos in couch
>now drinking optimum amino energy bcaa preworkout gushing grape
>will do some drugs, then do some drifting in and out of sleep listening to audiobooks for several days, then I don't know what

>read 10 pages
>no longer feel like reading
>just stare forward blankly

Can I get any recommendations for books about a person who has periods of trying really hard to better themselves but always reverts back to being a lazy good-for-nothing underachiever?

>>13549491

I need help, guys, and I can't think of where else to ask other than /lit/. I have never understood poetry - it is a field of literature I never have read, or really appreciated. But lately I feel like there is an ocean of writing I simply have missed out on. In the future, I even hope to incorporate some poetry in my own writing.
But where do I start?
Are there any books on the subject of understanding/appreciating poetry that you would recommend? Any simple collections for plebs like me?
>pls

can't afford physical books so I got a paperwhite

it's alright, but I'd much prefer having physical copies of all of my books to inflate my ego

>>8322624
same