I have a bad attention span when it comes to reading, as a kid I could sit and read for hours, but stopped for years due to anxiety/ depression, but have slowly got back to it.
These days I read regularly but in short 20 minute bursts, started again by going into coffee shops and reading with a coffee occasionally, but because of covid ended up doing a lot of reading, ahem... whilst on the shitter.
Started off reading again with shorter books as I have a tendency to get halfway through large books and lose interest, I also like books with a lot of individual small chapters as this helps keeping the pace going.
Now I usually go for short novels (around 200 pages preferably) and have managed about 30 in the past few years, although I changed to graphic novels / collected comic storylines during lockdown for a bit of escapism.
I tend to go for either classic novels I haven't got round to, books that films have been based on, old pulp horror/ sci fi I remember from having as a kid., or just other random stuff that always interested me.
I've got a lot of 70's/ 80's novels i've picked up over the years from charity shops, car boots etc.
Over the past few years this has included early James Herbert, William Burroughs, Conan, Sven Hassel, Fear and loathing in Las
Vegas, On the Road, The electric kool aid acid test, Romero's Martin film adaption. to name a few that come to mind.
This year so far i've read these books, which is pretty good going for me, but all have been easy reads, around 200 pages mostly, with Animal Farm coming in at a whopping 88 pages.
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Never read Animal Farm but meant to, recently found out the other day that Orwell based the book near me in the next town/village, a place called Willingdon (it's mentioned in the story many times). So that prompted me to finally read it.
The last book I read was Z for Zachariah (finished yesterday) which I remember really liking as a teenager at school. It was as good as I remembered, a basic story of survival of a teenage girl after a nuclear war, she lives in a valley that is kind of missed and must survive on her own on a farm until another survivor shows up and complicates stuff.
There's a film of it with Margo Robbie that makes the character older and adds an extra survivor, totally ruining the dynamic and tone of the story, it's the reason i went back to the book as the film was totally wrong compared to what I remembered.
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Now trying to decide what to read now.
