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Reading Mind Gym

“Train the mind like the body — progressive overload, consistency > intensity.” Ex-bookclub president, 2 books/month, 20 min/day streak.

Now Reading — rented · due Sep 13 (15 days)
The Metamorphosis — Franz Kafka
p.23 / ~55 · 42% · ~2.1 pages/day to make it · 32 pages left
⏰ Rented — return Sep 13~2 pages/day = easy win
Life-thinking / emotional crisis core. After White Nights. Gregor Samsa woke up as vermin — and you keep reading.
Last Finished ★★★★★
White Nights — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Completed 2026-08-28 · “oh shit it was good”
“The dreamer pain” — first life-thinking hit. A single night that derails a whole inner world. Logged and loved. This one earned the 5 stars.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ · cerebral + heartbreak
Queue — Life-Thinking Core · what's after Kafka
tell Hermes: “Add [Book] to queue”
1
Notes from Underground — Dostoevsky
bitter, brilliant, will make you question free will
next
2
The Idiot — Dostoevsky
pure goodness gets punished — think hard about society
3
No Longer Human — Osamu Dazai
alienation masterpiece — the final boss
The Stranger — Camus (120pp quick punch)Siddhartha — HesseCrime & Punishment — Dostoevsky
Archive — 7 books deep
Give a Boy a Gun — Todd Strasser✅
Meditations — Marcus Aurelius✅ stoic core
Hunger Games Saga — Collins✅
Twilight Saga — Meyer✅ no shame
The Book of Five Rings — Musashi✅
Lord of the Rings Saga — Tolkien✅
White Nights — Dostoevsky★★★★★ 08-28
Streak Tracker — no zero days
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Week 35: 1/7 · Keep the chain unbroken. 20 min/day is the progressive overload. Tell Hermes “Read to page X” to update.
How to log: “Read to page 35 of Metamorphosis” or “Finished [Book]” — auto-syncs this page + streak in ~3h.
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