I should pick up a copy of Yockey. My reading list last year was abysmal (lmao 12 books) and this year due to work I have lined up half a dozen (at least!) biz/sales related books. Need more food for the soul and for the mind.
For my work, I allow myself a 15 minute break after each 45 minute intensive space of work. If I need to focus longer, I’ll go until 90 minutes which is the point of diminishing returns. Then I’ll read or Shadowbox in those breaks depending on what’s needed. I also read for a half hour after I pray and have my first workout in the morning.
Since I’m reading four books at once on these lists, I divide each book up into 30 or 31 days, and I plug the 12 pages of this book in one break or plug 20 pages of another book in another break. It makes it much easier to read the 42-77 pages I have to read per day this year.
Great list! Enjoy the Hamsun reads. Pan and Mysteries may be my favourites, or anyway I considered them that for a while in my late teens or early twenties. It would be silly to be bombastic about that when his ouevre also includes Hunger, Growth of the Soil and On Overgrown Paths. "Under the Autumn Star" is another personal favourite, assuming that's how the title is translated into English. And then the whole August trilogy... BRUH. I have his collected works in Norwegian, but have saved plenty of titles for later, instead re-reading ones I've read years previously.
Anyway, I ramble on, but I will suggest getting hold of a collection of his articles, if that even exists in English. Some of his funniest stuff, and where you really get to know his opinion on things (his novels are of course suffused with his incomparable ability to empathize and create believable characters of all kinds, but when expressing his own stubbornly held opinions he does not allow you to wonder what he really means, but speaks very plainly indeed).
I’m excited to trade notes with you about each of his works. I plan to ultimately read every last thing he’s written even if I have to learn Norwegian some years down the line after I learn Spanish, Polish, French, and Russian. I’m particularly excited to read Mysteries and The Ring Is Closed. His articles sound fascinating. Such an intense individual.
I should pick up a copy of Yockey. My reading list last year was abysmal (lmao 12 books) and this year due to work I have lined up half a dozen (at least!) biz/sales related books. Need more food for the soul and for the mind.
Very interesting list. How do you manage to read so much ? Would you mind sharing your reading routine ?
Certainly.
For my work, I allow myself a 15 minute break after each 45 minute intensive space of work. If I need to focus longer, I’ll go until 90 minutes which is the point of diminishing returns. Then I’ll read or Shadowbox in those breaks depending on what’s needed. I also read for a half hour after I pray and have my first workout in the morning.
Since I’m reading four books at once on these lists, I divide each book up into 30 or 31 days, and I plug the 12 pages of this book in one break or plug 20 pages of another book in another break. It makes it much easier to read the 42-77 pages I have to read per day this year.
Great list! Enjoy the Hamsun reads. Pan and Mysteries may be my favourites, or anyway I considered them that for a while in my late teens or early twenties. It would be silly to be bombastic about that when his ouevre also includes Hunger, Growth of the Soil and On Overgrown Paths. "Under the Autumn Star" is another personal favourite, assuming that's how the title is translated into English. And then the whole August trilogy... BRUH. I have his collected works in Norwegian, but have saved plenty of titles for later, instead re-reading ones I've read years previously.
Anyway, I ramble on, but I will suggest getting hold of a collection of his articles, if that even exists in English. Some of his funniest stuff, and where you really get to know his opinion on things (his novels are of course suffused with his incomparable ability to empathize and create believable characters of all kinds, but when expressing his own stubbornly held opinions he does not allow you to wonder what he really means, but speaks very plainly indeed).
I’m excited to trade notes with you about each of his works. I plan to ultimately read every last thing he’s written even if I have to learn Norwegian some years down the line after I learn Spanish, Polish, French, and Russian. I’m particularly excited to read Mysteries and The Ring Is Closed. His articles sound fascinating. Such an intense individual.