#006 House of Leaves and burning out

Welcome to my bi-weekly digest for the 9th to the 22nd of April. House of Leaves... Is such an imposing book, which I suppose is the point. I started it a few weeks after I was gifted it for my birthday, fast forward by a few months and I'm now continuing it. No spoilers, obviously, but a footnote led me to a string of letters, and there was a decryption task that broke my heart near the end of it. Later on in the main book, there was a single symbol that wouldn't mean anything had I not read those letters yet I did so, in that moment, I felt called out. Such a weird feeling. I've been skimming over a lot of stuff because, frankly, I don't have that kinda beast in me. Worse yet, I've been getting headaches after reading for prolonged periods of time. Nevertheless, I'm having a good time, even if it is a chapter or two every couple of weeks.1 I try not to let it get to me, but the pace at which I read and the struggles I have to take it all in really call into question my overall media…