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?
To be honest I immediately start the next book or continue with another one I already started.
I read before bed, so I usually go to sleep
I think as long about it as it requires me to on my bed and then do something else. Then I might tell someone/some people about it.
Rarely, when I absolutely had no idea wtf was happening, I made up a thesis and then looked up online what others think. Last time I had that was with Peter Handke’s Mein Tag im anderen Land 1. I was apparently right there with my thesis… but… still really didn’t know WHY. :D
Mostly though I shove reading sessions into the day like taking out my phone, except if the book is REALLY exceptional (Schachnovelle 2, Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui 3 or Traumnovelle 4).
1 My Day in a Foreign Country
2 Chess Story
3 The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
4 Dream Story
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.
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