@read-and-be-merry List of Books to Read Before You Die
- Any book you want
- Don’t read books you don’t want to read
- That’s it
- Congratulations you did it
@iammewhooaryou | really like this list. All my favorite books are on it.
@ read-and-be-merry Thanks | worked really hard on it
In school I was forced practically at gunpoint to stare at poetry and regurgitate the teacher/professor’s opinions about what it means. It killed my ability to enjoy poetry for over two decades.
Reading something that doesn’t engage with you is not helpful. Ever.
Oh yeah, I suffered with poetry in school too. Tho my story is quite different, what happened is that I was quite active in the fantasy community in the old site and one day some author was giving away her book to a few people in exchange for reviews on amazon (ebook). It was quite frankly terrible but I got it for free so I felt like I owed it to her to read it all. When I reached the end I didn’t even review it because I could not bring myself to rate it higher than 2 stars.