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What do you do immediately after finishing a book? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by Audalin@beehaw.org to c/literature@beehaw.org

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The impression is fresh for a while. What is the first thing you do?

Do you discuss it? Do you write some kind of review for yourself? Do you explore professional reviews/analyses instead to compare the perspectives? Do you give yourself some time to form an opinion? Do you do something else?

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[–] neamhsplach@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Oh god this is depressing. I used to immediately go on reddit to see if anyone else had read it and read what they thought 🤣

Apart from that I wear the ear off my partner about the writing and the themes and the cultural context and how reading it in the 21st century changes the text. I rarely write down what I thought of a book, but that actually sounds like quite a nice thing to do.