"It was naive of me, to think that expressing your distaste for something means you can resist all the forces of family and society that propel you toward it"

Oh. Too real. 😅

What's the longest line you've ever encountered? I just remembered this banger from Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, lol:

'Once I'm an owl, what is the spell or antidote for turning me back into myself?' Mr Muhammad Sufyan, prop. Shaandaar Café and landlord of the rooming-house above, mentor to the variegated, transient and particoloured inhabitants of both, seen-it-all type, least doctrinaire of hajis and most unashamed of VCR addicts, ex-schoolteacher, self-taught in classical texts of many cultures, dismissed from post in Dhaka owing to cultural differences with certain generals in the old days when Bangladesh was merely an East Wing, and therefore, in his own words, 'not so much an immig as an emig runt' — this last a good-natured allusion to his lack of inches, for though he was a wide man, thick of arm and waist, he stood no more than sixty-one inches off the ground, blinked in his bedroom doorway, awakened by Jumpy Joshi's urgent midnight knock, polished his half-rimmed spectacles on the edge of Bengali-style kurta (drawstrings tied at the neck in a neat bow), squeezed lids tightly shut open shut over myopic eyes, replaced glasses, opened eyes, stroked moustacheless hennaed beard, sucked teeth, and responded to the now-indisputable horns on the brow of the shivering fellow whom Jumpy, like the cat, appeared to have dragged in, with the above impromptu quip, stolen, with commendable mental alacrity for one aroused from his slumbers, from Lucius Apuleius of Madaura, Moroccan priest, AD 120-180 approx., colonial of an earlier Empire, a person who denied the accusation of having bewitched a rich widow yet confessed, somewhat perversely, that at an early stage in his career he had been transformed, by witchcraft, into (not an owl, but) an ass.

How long do you have to go, and how little do you have to read for you PERSONALLY to call it a reading slump?

Like I typically read EVERY day for at least1-3 hours. So if I go more than a few days without reading that much, I consider it a slump.

Before today, I'd gone at least 4-5 days without reading for more than at least 1.5 hrs, and I thought I was heading into a major slump.

But I started re-listening to an old favorite of mine last night. And now it's only 8pm and I've read at least 1.5 hrs. 😁 🤷‍♀️ My mind is an odd place, lol. Guess I just needed a comfort read.

Do you prefer shorter chapters but there are a lot more chapters in the book, or fewer long chapters?

I personally prefer my chapters to be shorter so then I feel like I'm making more progress faster. And because I like to stop at the end of a chapter it makes it easier for me to read in shorter bursts when the chapters are shorter.