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   I’m not sure I realized these parallels reading Hemingway and Remarque back then, but it probably doesn’t matter. I was magnetized by these books anyway.
   
  -## Second transition
  +### Second transition
   
   Around 2010 several things happened. First, I've read enough of Hemingway and Remarque and I didn't know what to read next. Second, I left Ukraine and my access to physical books in Ukrainian and Russian languages was limited. At that time I was reading technical books in English but I have never read a full fiction book in my non-native language. Next few years were periods of struggle with both finding books I would want to read and starting reading books in English. Only around 2014, I was comfortable enough with reading books in English. And only in 2016 I discovered a lot of books that I was excited to read.
   
   In January 2016 I listened to 4 podcasts (2 with Naval Ravikant and 2 with Derek Sivers) (1, 2, 3, 4) on Tim Ferriss show that provided me with 1) some ideas how I can change my reading habits, 2) list of books that were interesting to me.
   
  -## Ideas
  +### Ideas
   
   Here is the list of tips from Naval that I tried and that worked for me:
   
  
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  From my personal experience changing styles of books you are reading also helps. E.x. if you are reading 3 books in a row about spirituality that might become boring. Mix and match books, read a fiction book and then non-fiction, change topics etc. It happened to me at least once during the year one book reminded me so much of the previous one that I just stopped reading it (however I plan to come back to it later).
  
  ## New problems
  
  This year is already one of the best in terms of reading for me personally. I don't think I've read that much since middle school. However 10 months after starting reading again I noticed several new problems.
  
  
negative.code: 
  Those were my first years reading. I think this stage was mostly about adventures (I read some others more serious books at the time, but I think they were rarer at this period). For me, it lasted from 1993 till 1997-98. I would call it “Harry Potter” stage. However, I have never read or watched Harry Potter because the first book was published in 1997 and it came few years later to Ukraine. By that time I was mostly done with this genre.
  
  ### Middle school
  
  During this stage, I read most of the things we were reading for the school program but sometimes on my own schedule. A lot of works I read before the program because again I had a lot of free time on my hands and some I discovered outside of school (e.x. at my parent's or grandparents' library). In this period I read mostly classics of French, Ukrainian, and Russian literature (XVIII and XIX centuries), I read also some science fiction for the first time and I read a decent amount of books about WWII, about partisans, about resistance. I read also other historian adventures about cossack, pirates etc. Occasionally I would pick up some random books like Viktor Suvorov's explanations of Soviet and world history of the XX century.
  
  The main theme during this stage was history (which I enjoyed a lot) and some adventures but by real people.
  
  ### First transition
  
  During my high school years I moved to the big city, it was the beginning of 00’s years, the country was very different. We had a lot of TV channels, radio stations, cinemas. There were a lot of things one could do after school. The environment changed dramatically. I also lost some personal interest in books. I still read most of the works for the school program, but it was rare that I would find a book that I would read with the joy for few hours per day. Basically, my taste and interests changed but I wasn’t able to find a replacement yet. School program was of no help. We read usually something I wasn’t interested that much at the moment. Topics were unappealing to me.
  
  