I finally learned to stop over-annotating my books for book club
I used to highlight and tab every single thing I thought was important in my book club books... you know, character names, symbols, themes. But last month I spent like 8 hours prepping for our discussion on this one novel, and when I got to the meeting nobody cared about my deep symbolism breakdown. They all just wanted to talk about whether the ending made them mad or not. So now I limit myself to three tabs per chapter max and mostly just write down my gut reactions in the margins. It took me a solid year and five failed book club meetings to figure out that less is way more when you're trying to actually talk about a book with other people. Anyone else ever kill their own enjoyment of reading by turning it into homework?