One of the hardest things to do right now is pass the time. Once you figure that out, then it's equally hard to to be invested in something that you actually enjoy and benefit from. Thankfully, by mere coincidence I had a lot of books from the library before the big break. While I like literature a lot, I needed a change in genre. Thing Explainer by Randall Munroe (the same man who created the online comic xkcd and wrote What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions) isn't a story, but rather closer to a textbook about how things work. Literally, it lists the inner workings of different inventions. It meticulously labels everything about something, from the parts of a car's engine to even the parts of a tree. On paper, this sounds boring, but there's a catch: the entire book is written in with the 1000 most common words in the English language. That means that every explanation of something is brutally simple. For example, a helicopter is called
Lit Literature Gang
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