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[โ€“] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Back when I was a kid my mom read Herman Wouk's The Winds of War -- and it took her my entire childhood to do it. She only read when we were on vacation, which was only like one week a year. I'm not entirely sure she ever finished the book. I'm also waiting for her to finish the sweater she started knitting for me in 1978.

[โ€“] limelight79@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I once read Shelby Foote's The Civil War, all three volumes. It took me years, longer than the actual war. It's very good, but it's densely written, and of course the subject matter doesn't really make for "light reading". There were times I had to put it down for a while.