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Life long reader, needs encouragement

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I've been reading all my life. When I was young it was easy - there was so much to discover about the world and about books. These days I find it harder to get interested, yet a good book gives me enormous satisfaction. So I'm hoping that reading along with others will help me to focus; I've just been discovering via an online course that exchanging views with others is very rewarding.
I read good books. By which I mean, what's loosely called literary fiction - but I'm choosy within that. I have had sci-fi phases, and I read the occasional detective, mostly when I'm on aeroplanes.
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hi Chris27,

Welcome to Booktalk!! :)
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Yes I also find it more rewarding to discuss books as I read them. (It also slows me down, so the books last longer)
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Welcome to BookTalk.org. :)
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Welcome, so glad you found your way to BT! I am also a lifelong reader and finding it harder and harder to get going with a book. I've taken to reading short stories. If I encounter a bad one, it does not feel like such a waste - I've hardly invested any time in the endeavor. Alice Munro (Too Much Happiness) is a favorite and William Trevor can go on that list too. There are two books of fiction that are collections of short stories that intersect one another to form a sort of novel when read altogether.

Let the Great World Spin by Colum Mccann and Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
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