Hello, I have a decent amount of downtime at work, but still have to keep an eye on some servers/ occasionally communicate.
A lot of the books I like tend to be more enjoyable to read if I can really get into it for an hour at a time. But the job is disruptive and breaks the immersion.
Any good books that I can devote only 80 percent of my mind to? Prefer fiction but open to anything. YA stuff is certainly fine too.
by A_Squid_A_Dog
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Randall Munroe’s **What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions** is a series of pop-sci and pop-culture questions answered in one or two paragraphs. The answers are hilarious in a dry-humored way.
A typical question is: How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live?
The Uxbridge English Dictionary. Humerous definitions of common words.
>Paintings – Jamaican torture implements.
>Kaleidoscope – New traffic camera which only captures accidents.
If we’re going with dictionaries, Ambrose Bierce’s The Devil’s Dictionary.
Fiction, Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata. Extremely short stories, like two or three pages.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – very funny, doesn’t require concentration
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle.
Most of the book is him answering the questions he’s received over the years. Some answers are short (a paragraph) and others may be a few pages. Great read, amazing insight
A man called ove has short chapters, 3-4 pages each. It’s a heartwarming read. Hope you like it if you wind up reading it.