Normalize giving up on reading books you don’t like. This doesn’t mean don’t ever read anything hard, but if you’re just not interested at all 40-50 pages in stop. Brothers Karamazov was hard but also gripping and I got through it and I’m glad I did. Conversely, I’ve been reading Hesse’s Glass Bead Game and it’s just not doing it for me so I think…I’ll just stop reading it. It’s not going anywhere in any case.