Yeah, and of course the superficial stuff is easy to grasp, like one character is lazy, or the other more of a dreamer who achieves nothing. But you feel like there are things going over your head.

At the moment I’m reading Dead Souls by Gogol. I’ve been at it for a while. It’s a bit heavy for a summer read, but I’m enjoying it somewhat. It’s fun to see all the colorful characters that come across, but I have the idea a lot is going over my head as I’m not that familiar with the Russia of that time. It’s sad quite a bit is missing of the second part.

Only about 70 pages left. The next book will definitely be something lighter…

Oh, this is my 3rd Japanese novel I’m reading, so I’m only just getting started. But I’ll be sure to keep posting here.

I wanted to dive deeper in specific topics this year, rather than jumping from one topic to the next. The coming months I want to read mostly contemporary Japanese literature, which is still a very broad topic of course. Right now I’m reading No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, a short novel about a troubled man who fails to connect to others. Currently halfway and ian incredibly bleak view on human relationships and interaction.

I’m currently reading Monbiot’s Regenesis, a book on the problems of modern day agriculture and a vision of a new future for food. I’m currently about halfway, and it’s mostly still about the problems of the current agricultural practices, but it’s already intriguing and throught-provoking.

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