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Been slowly working on The Earth Transformed by Peter Frankopan. And by slowly I mean I just finished the first chapter after 4 days of reading. Really interesting look at climate change beyond the scope of the modern climate crisis. I was worried it was going to downplay the trouble we're in, but if anything it's the opposite so far. An awful lot of mass extinction events look like our climate projections.
... And since I've clearly been struggling to read much lately I started working through the Laid-back Camp manga to kick my brain into a different gear. Good ol' comfy goofiness.
So, the book is dense or just unable to read too much for other reasons?
Just other reasons, I burnt out on reading a bit at the end of last year. I have a stack at my bedside where the easiest read by a long shot is Fellowship of the Ring, so I think I just jammed up with a few too many "hard" books and I need to reset a bit.
I'm actually impressed by how approachable Earth Transformed has been so far. It has a few gritty details but it doesn't feel like I need to bang my head against it at all.
Oh yeah, happened to me some years back, added too many classics because I should read them, and got burned out, had to switch to just fantasy and sci-fi for a few years to get back into reading properly.