Yes. You are definitely the only person in the world who reads for enjoyment. I feel sorry for you.

If you haven’t found it terrifying with 50 pages to go it isn’t going to happen.

Quality fiction contains more basic human truth than any non-fiction. I like both, but when it’s time to ponder what it means to be human, fiction is where I reside.

I read all of the Pulitzer Fiction finalists each year. I read the NBA winner each year and prior to announcing I read from the longlist. I also often read the NBCCA. I find that the NBA longlist most consistently delivers my favorite new reads.

Excellent novel. Check out David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas if you haven’t already.

Groups are the way. But beware, you can quickly have too many friends there and all the sudden your feed is filled with people pimping their self published crap. I finally had to sit down and cull my friends list back down to about 25 people whose reviews I’d enjoyed and who make an effort to read mine too.

Damn, dude, that’s the best mini essay I’ve read in a year.

Might not be real but good fiction teaches us more about what it means to be human than reading anything else. More basic human truth can be found in good fiction than anywhere else.