Books have a soul; if you can't get into a book, it's usually because it doesn't resonate with you. Even the same author can write different books with different souls. I can finish *One Hundred Years of Solitude* in one go and be deeply moved, but I've only read a third of *Chronicle of a Death Foretold* by Gabriel García Márquez and still haven't finished it; I can read *Siddhartha* fluently, but I struggled with Hesse's *Steppenwolf*. Finding a book that resonates with your soul is a stroke of luck.

I never finished reading *One Hundred Years of Solitude* in one go; the names were too convoluted. I used to really like Siddhartha, but later I thought young people shouldn't read it too much 😭

It's okay, it's all in a cycle. Just keep reading, you don't need to memorize it.

I'm not reading anymore. I'll read more practical books instead. I'll read these when I want to simplify my life. 😭

Pragmatism nowadays basically doesn't require reading books; you can just chat with AI.