Happy Monday! No announcements this week, so we’ll get straight to our weekly question.
What Are You Reading?
Hellooooo, Epic friends! Tis I, Jenn, and I’m excited to be in conversation with y’all about your reads! Especially because I am, tbqh, sort of a reading disaster at the moment.
I knew that Get Booked going dark for the moment would change how I approached my reading list, but I didn’t realize the extent to which that would be true. I’m still reading for other podcasts — I’m going to be joining the Read Harder team, so I will be in your earholes soon for that, and of course there’s SFF Yeah! — but Get Booked reading was always so highly specific. I thought for sure that having a break from that would mean I would be able to dive into the backlog of things that are just not useful for podcasts, but instead I find myself unable to pick and unable to stick with books when I do.
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All of which is to say, brains are weird!? The only thing I’m actually managing to stick with right now is, perhaps appropriately, Johann Hari’s Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again. Rebecca read it and recommended it to Staff a while back and my library hold came in recently, so this is now my bedtime book. And it’s so compelling, and also kind of terrifying; telling me all about how multi-tasking is ruining my brain when I spend 90% of my work time multi-tasking is deeply HOW DARE. And then last night I got to the chapter on sleep, and how your brain LITRULLY washes itself (!!!!) during a certain sleep phase, and if it doesn’t get to do that wash then there’s all kinds of crud built up in there. What! Are! Bodies!
So yeah, it’s deeply horrifying but also feels very helpful in giving me some priorities about how I set myself up during my workdays, and considering what I can mute/set aside/turn off in order to give myself more focus periods and also better sleep. (No one wants brain-crud, am I right?) I’m sure I’ll have horrifying new factoids to share with you next week as well, so you have that to look forward to, sorry in advance.
Enough about me and my brain — what are y’all reading? Click through to add your reading list to the comments!
-Jenn