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Still on this ... I'm getting a lot out of it but it's sloow

Why is this the hardest book for me to read? Every page is like pulling teeth. I'm not sure if it's the subject or writing. If you read it, let me know what you think. I'm literally forcing myself to finish it at this point. It has good material but there's just something different and difficult.

I feel like I have a brain block when I read this. I can only read so much at a time. Maybe it's because I really need this advice and everything rings true? There's a lot of content. My brain feels almost hot and overloaded. I'm on the part about different ways we self sabotage and I feel like I do that with everything I do. I want to finish it, so hopefully I can by tomorrow.

This is my gym read, it's easy and doesn't take much thinking. I'm not really liking it, just feels like a basic rip-off of other stories, nothing special or unique. But I'm trying to finish all the books I start this year.

I'm reading this on mobile and I think I need the physical book to go back and take notes or reference. There's a lot of good stuff in here but I think it's definitely something that needs to be revisited a lot based on how your life is at a certain point. But I am liking it.

I learned that I'm a 'judge' personality type.
I learned that happiness and unhappiness aren't on a scale together. You can experience both negative and positive emotions and they aren't connected. Being unhappy about something doesn't take away from the ability to also be happy about other things.

Compared to Wool, I'm not invested in the characters. I can kinda see where it's going. There's no stakes right now. You already know what's gonna happen because it's a prequel...so I'm not sure what they could have added to help make the story more suspenseful. Maybe book three will be better and tie it all together. For now, just gonna push through reading it. I'm on part 2.

Uh okay this went from cute to....cringe to wtf real quick. Like really quick. 🤷‍♀️ I'm laughing at loud at some of this dialogue. Anyways, 13 year old me might have eaten this up.

Easy guilty pleasure read, not too bad so far.

I didn't read the description, except I know the premise is a therapist going to a therapist. I'm waiting for something to happen. I don't know if this is fictional or non fiction. So I'm just kinda on the ride, which I usually don't do. It has good reviews but rn it's mundane. I'm getting the feeling that I want people in my life to read it, maybe that's a deflection.

Really liking it so far, probably because I'm a sucker for Greek mythology and love stories 🥹

Engaging so far except describing skin like olive oil 🤣 had to Google it and realized it was meme'd when the book first came out

Middle was a bit boring, I felt like it was repetitive and driving home a point too much. I get it, imperialism sucks. Just hit part 3. Foreshadowing tells me something goes wrong, so I'm sticking around. I think the book could be shortened, too much time spent on daily life.

Definitely some hard to swallow parts, curious where it's headed but Lovell seems really evil and I like the foreshadowing going on. I want to keep reading even though it's already sad.