"The basic framework I’d like to suggest is the one I used for my Foundations project: pick a defined area of improvement, and make a focused effort at improving your knowledge and behavior over one month... I break down the process of conducting a month-long sprint into four parts: Choose a theme. Take action. Get … Continue reading The One-Month Knowledge Sprint: How to Read Books, Take Action, and Change Your Life
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For the Love of Reading
"Today, children are being introduced to books and stories one paragraph at a time. They might be reading something as wonderful as Peggy Parish's Amelia Bedelia, but when you have to stop and answer questions, in detail, often word-for-word, about random paragraphs, there's no way you can learn to care about the characters or the … Continue reading For the Love of Reading
One Fifth of U.S. Adults Have Limited Reading Comprehension
"Many counties that lack programs also double as hot spots of low adult literacy. These are primarily in the mountains of Appalachia, the Southern Black Belt, the Central Valley of California and along the Texas border with Mexico, but they exist throughout the nation. In about 500 American counties, nearly a third of adults struggle … Continue reading One Fifth of U.S. Adults Have Limited Reading Comprehension
Books in 2022, Plan vs. Reality
The Plan Last year, I made a list of books for every week of the year. I hardly read anything from the list. I read things like N.K. Jemisin's Inheritance trilogy, revisited some of the books of Iain M. Banks Culture series (currently reading Against a Dark Background), and basically, just read whatever I felt … Continue reading Books in 2022, Plan vs. Reality
RedditReads.com
"I processed billions of comments to find the books most mentioned on reddit. Browse by subreddit or check out some popular results below.Including comments up to 30 Nov 2021.https://www.redditreads.com-
The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
""I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but it is not everything. I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I … Continue reading The Machine Stops by E. M. Forster
Always Judge a Book By Its Cover
"Some books win awards, some win our heart, and others... only serve to confuse."-https://alwaysjudgeabookbyitscover.com/ Eating People is Wrong's commentary made me LOL. But, it was the Chuck Tingle book that convinced me to post this website. I don't know why I even know who Chuck Tingle is, probably has something to do with the "weird … Continue reading Always Judge a Book By Its Cover
The Four Reading Levels
Elementary: What does the text say? Literacy.Inspectual: What is this article/book about? Superficial, skimming.Analytical: Is the information / argument good? Meaning, perspective and use.Synoptic: Comparative. Trying to incorporate multiple points of view into our own view. Nothing I want to quote from the article by Bruno Boksic on this topic. But, I thought it was … Continue reading The Four Reading Levels
New Year, Coloring Around a Dead TV
Spending New Year's Eve watching live TV. I'm struck by how this format, based on a shared experience at the same moment in time, is a relic from a previous media era. After a few hours, I feel dumber. I'm left with the feeling that I could live the rest of my life and not … Continue reading New Year, Coloring Around a Dead TV
Books I’d Like to Read in 2021
A short fiction where I pretend to you, dear reader, that I am still capable of reading more than a book a week. Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel M. IngramFool on the Hill by Mark SargentThe Omnibus Homo Sacer by Giorgio AgambenCargill Falls by William Lychack [x]Black Imagination by Natasha Marin … Continue reading Books I’d Like to Read in 2021
Tachyon Humble Book Bundle
"Get ready to ride off into the stars and charge into magical battles. We've teamed up with Tachyon to provide you with a bundle of imaginative digital sci-fi and fantasy books for your reading pleasure! Get ebooks like Ivory Apples by Lisa Goldstein, The Very Best of Caitlin by R. Kiernan, and Beyond Frankenstein by … Continue reading Tachyon Humble Book Bundle
Books as Time Capsules
"Saving clippings this way turns each book into a time capsule. The next time I open one of these books, a paper treasure will fall out. A little surprise for my future self. (Or whoever else cracks it open.)"Austin Kleon, "How to turn your books into time capsules." AustinKleon.com. January 29, 2020. Strangely, this even … Continue reading Books as Time Capsules
Don’t Like, Don’t Read
"The onus was on the reader, not the author, to protect themselves with the information given. Basically, AO3 took the early fandom nugget 'Don’t like, don’t read' and made it policy."-rapacityinblue, on Tumblr. (I'm not going to try to get my mind around how a Tumblr discussion should be cited.) I found this discussion about … Continue reading Don’t Like, Don’t Read
How to Read Big Books
"...it is a principal task of a successful modern university to teach people how to read [big, difficult, flawed, incredibly insightful, genius books]. Indeed, it might be said that one of the few key competencies we here at the university have to teach—our counterpart or the medieval triad of rhetoric, logic, grammar and then quadriad … Continue reading How to Read Big Books
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