If you’re anything like me, you probably read a lot of books and forget a lot about them as well after reading them (also see: being ADHD)

Is there one specific book whose plot, characters, setting you just can’t get out of your mind and still think about today even when in the midst of another book?

For me, it’s 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami. I think due to the sheer volume of this book (clocked in over 1000 pages) I was so invested in Tengo and Aomame’s stories that it’s quite impossible to forget them quickly. This is also why I prefer long novels, because they stick around in my memory for longer!

So what book is still stuck with you?

  • Hour-Sir-1276BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    The Neapolitan Quartet by Elena Ferrante still stays with me. I was very reluctant to start the books, that’s why I bought just the first one in the beginning (My brilliant friend), but I fell in love instantly with Ferrante’s prose and story and of course I read the rest of the series as well. Few months have passed since then and still my mind is there, in Napoli. I’ve read few other books afterwards, but none of them managed to catch me like these books did.