Having finished the entirely visual PROJECT ROSEWATER, and in need of a serious gear-shift to engage with the literary aspect of PROJECT HOURGLASS, I pulled a couple books off the shelf in an attempt to help lubricate the writerly side of my brain: ثرثرة فوق النيل (“Adrift on the Nile”) by Naguib Mahfouz and Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, altering between both every other chapter.
I'm typically a one book at a time kinda guy, so doing this with two books—each in a completely different language at that—is doing something strange to my brain chemistry.