If you're not finding enough time to fit some reading into your life, here's a selection of wonderful short books you can rip through in a couple of hours. A short 🧵 📚
J L Carr - A Month In The Country
Diana Athill - Somewhere Towards The End
Nan Shepherd - In The Cairngorms
Alan Garner - Treacle Walker
@fkamiah17 I did try and read The Great Gatsby a bit back because it was such a slim book but I kept getting around 30-40 pages in then realising I hadn't actually taken any of it in.
@Wufflekins I can't stand that book. I've never understood why people think it's a classic. "Money doesn't make you happy or get you what you want, says pisshead rich guy".
There you go, you don't need to finish it now 😂
@fkamiah17@Wufflekins
Gatsby was basically forgotten about until WWII when the armed forces started distributing cheap paperback reprints to servicemen. They picked Gatsby as one of them. Nice short book, manly themes, I guess. It started a revival.
@negative12dollarbill@Wufflekins That's interesting, I didn't know that. Perhaps cementing the idea that being rich is an achievement in itself? Or that rich people are inherently right purely on the basis of their wealth.
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