/lit/ - Literature

>>14383844
Moby Dick

Also definitely Walden

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (inspired by Walden, a woman goes innawoods).
My Side of the Mountain
Hatchet? Sort of?

You could take 20 minutes and google Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” short story.

Which reminds me of Into the Wild, if you haven’t read that already.

>>14327051
>>How often do you read?

Daily

>>How long do you read? When do you stop?

Work breaks, or in the evenings on weekends if I have got all my schoolwork done before Sunday.

>>What position do you read in?

Now that I think of it, almost always in a chair.

>>Where do you read?

Breakroom or backroom if breakroom is crowded. At my tutoring job I just read at my station in the lounge. At home I have a spot at the counter.

>>If you read in the dark what kind of light do you use?

Lamp, kitchen light is shit.

>>Do you prefer reading physical books or reading off of an e-reader?

Physical 100%.

>>Which do you read more often: fiction or nonfiction? What genre do you most often read?

Nonfiction? Although I’m getting back into fiction. I’m trying to dig through the whole Western canon so it’s got a ton of both.

>>How do you keep your place for reading later? Dog ear, bookmark, none?

Paper scraps as a bookmark.

>>Do you eat or drink while reading

Drink yes, eat no.

>>Do you listen to music while reading?

Not at all now that you mention it.

>>Do you read the back of the book? Do you read the introduction or the preface?

I read the introduction or preface every time. I read the back sometimes when I’m bored or get distracted.

>>Do you re-read books after you've read them once?

Yes, but typically only for a specific purpose. A paper or something that I can choose the text for is a good example.

>>Do you annotate on your books or do any kind of note-taking while reading?

I annotate the ones I know I’ll keep. I have a notebook for quotes organized by subject (violence, or oceanic imagery).

>>Do you prefer to own books or borrow them from the library?

I own the ones that I want to own; for books I don’t see as worthy or relevant to my ongoing studies, I either borrow or immediately donate.

I’ve tried to become more well rounded. I’ve avoided extreme or narrow specializations in both my job and my studies. It’s worked. I’m now trained to work every department at my store at the management level and so I always have the option of 48 hour workweeks even if I get scheduled light, since I can take shifts from any department. I got a second job tutoring through my university, where I’ve majored in English. Also just being successful in general helps with antifragility; I have options for my Masters programs and in my day job everyone wants me in their store.

> tl;dr be more well-rounded and strive to be generally successful.

>>14254450
Oh, I can see how that happened. A well placed comma would have helped.

I got started journaling/notebooking whatever in that manner. If I felt the need, I would use the notebook. Weeks could pass between usages. Now, partially because I am much busier, I use it daily- and multiple times a day at that. I really do think of it as a “second brain” that keeps track of things so that I am free to focus on immediate matters.

>>14222240
I’ve been waiting for this thread.

> Multiple monologues from across Shakespeare’s shit.
> Tennyson’s poem “Kraken”.
> I’d guess just under a hundred Bible verses/scriptures.
> Working on Eliot’s “Marina”.

Sounded like more in my head but between the Bible and Shakespeare it’s a good bunch of content.