/lit/ - Literature

>>14765179
um excuse me op but i do not think your picture is related to the content of this board

here is a more relevant one.

Alright this is a non-standard request thread, but I'm in a quandary. I want to buy my mom a book for Christmas but I cant really find what I'm looking for. She's gotten more interested in our French-Canadian ancestry in her old age so I kind of want a book about French Canadian immigration to the USA (alternately, about the Metis, or plains indians of North Dakota perhaps) but it can't be academic because she has no real education.

She does like to read books, she's retired now so she goes through them pretty quickly, she only enjoys history when it's done in a 'personal' sort of way where it focuses on personages in a quasi-biopic sort of way if you know what I mean. I know "Dead Souls" is far above her reading level, I'd say she's at about 9th/10th grade or so. Have any of you stumbled across something that might fit the bill in your textual adventures?

harlot unrelated but she has a book so its literary.

>>12570323
Indeed. At this point of my life I find myself, for example, absolutely repulsed by this spic braphog. I loathe to imagine me fistfucking her, and then slurping all the pussy juice off her creamy thighs. I do find repugnant to think I would mount her doggystyle, and delight in the sound of her hambeast posterior slapping against my balls. And I shudder that I should shout "that will do, pig, that will do" while I do that. No, that is fucking disgusting, I would never,

Thinking about books and reading makes me incredibly happy. I love thinking about how many books there are in the world and how much information is stored within all books collectively, because they have been written for thousands of years.

I also love finding books online about subjects that I'm interested in and reading what they are about. I have a huge amount of lists of books about certain topics I've been interested in at one point or another, and I tell myself that I'll eventually read the books in these lists.

However, when the time actually comes to sit down and start reading, it's just so hard for me to focus! I can only read a few pages at a time, and then my mind will begin to wander. The only times when this doesn't happen is when I'm completely in love with a book and can easily read for the entire day without stopping.

My most recent example of this was the Harry Potter series. I read it for the first time about a month ago and I was averaging about a book per day (some of them are over 750 pages and I flew through them). This doesn't happen often, though. Maybe every few years.

One topic that I have the most book lists for is historical subjects. I love history so much, yet I can barely read a page without stopping when I try to read a book about something in history. Then I get mad at myself because I love history, so why is it so hard for me to read about something that I like so much?

Does this tend to happen to anyone else? Maybe I just haven't found a specific genre that I love yet?

It's epic, simply epic.

I've just read Life of Pi by Yann Martel, what should I think of it?