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I have lost momentum in this week of reading and only managed to swallow 3 books, 3,750 pages.

the shoutout this week has to go to *The Boys*, a compelling work of literary fiction that pulls a childhood insecurity, grief and trauma into the light in an interesting way. I read it in a single sitting and it hung around my head for days afterward.
The other 2 were Harry Potter fanfiction, one of which was rather amateur and immature both, and the other of which seems to have sadly had its sequel abandoned.
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Book cover of "The Boys" by Katie Hafner. The cover features large red squares with white pictograms on a background of a grassy hill under a blue sky with clouds. In the top left, an icon of a falling stick figure with "KATIE HAFNER" written below. Central area has icons in a grid: broken heart, person riding a bike, upward arrows, two people holding hands, and storm cloud with a lightning bolt. "THE BOYS" is prominently displayed in large white text across the grid, with "A Novel" in the center. A quote from Maria Semple says, "An audacious feat of narrative bravado." In the background, three tall, skinny trees appear on the hill.
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Sean Randall

@jakobrosin I got very frustrated with abridged audio tapes, I suppose. so began doing OCR with paperbacks.
When I learned to type pre-teen, my instructor would randomly up the text-to-speech rate by just a word per minute or so throughout the school term.
I started in September and it wasn't until she played back my first session before Christmas that I realised. By then, it was a done deal. I'd go up until I asn't comfortable anymore.

So I've never been one for slowing down for leisure versus skimming, or changing the voice to give myself a breath of fresh air or whatever.

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