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1: What's something you read recently and enjoyed?
Flowers for Algernon! It was the last fiction book I read and I really liked it. It's a 1960s sci-fi centring on an intellectually disabled man subjected to an experimental intelligence-enhancing surgery. It's fascinating how Keyes goes about writing a character who's capabilities to narrate his own story changes so drastically. Especially for the 60s, I think he approached the problems encountered by mentally disabled people with empathy, which is a key theme in the book. A gut-puncher, I'd say.
4: What are your top 3 comfort reads?
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith is my ultimate comfort read. I notice something else that's silly or cool every time I read it, and I've read it like... 7 times? I do have a Goldsmith obsession tho. So this is biased.
Gullivers Travels, esp Book 4, is what I open when I'm euughhh but I want to read. Very funny, very cool, and I love Swift's style. Horse superiority.
A Clockwork Orange I've read a lot, too, for comfort. Its fascinating, short, and so dense in its strangeness and smartness that theres a lot to entertain and intrigue you every read. I think what makes a comfort book to me are the sorts that have a lot of little details to them, so they feel fresh every time and let you stretch your mind when you need it.