/lit/ - Literature

You're unironically reading the wrong things. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be well-read, but doing it for the sake of socializing or adding another notch to your shelf is weird to me. If the book doesn't interest you, put it down and find one that does. Think, really think about why you're reading this or that, and go from there. While it's a commendable goal, no one man can know everything there is to be known. It's okay to not be able to jump seamlessly from a conversation about Gramsci's theory of cultural hegemony to a discussion on the mother-spirit of Narcissus and Goldmund. If you find that the written word brings you no joy in verse, prose, or what-have-you, it's fine to just go on not reading. Find another hobby where you can go out and choose a specific this or that to do whatsoever; I'm fond of gardening and can spend hours poking through seed packets and fertilizers and the like without buying anything and still feeling as though I haven't wasted a single second of my life.