Good translation is invisible until you compare two of them. Abandoning a book is allowed and sometimes wise. Reading before bed works best on paper and badly on a phone.
Getting started
The first chapter was slow, and the slowness was the point. Poetry rewards reading aloud, even to an empty room. Good translation is invisible until you compare two of them. Libraries remain the best recommendation engine ever built.
Poetry rewards reading aloud, even to an empty room. The author never explains the ending, and that is generous.
Trade-offs
Every great book quietly argues with an older one. Abandoning a book is allowed and sometimes wise. Libraries remain the best recommendation engine ever built.
Reading before bed works best on paper and badly on a phone. The footnotes were better than many novels I read this year.
The short version
I underlined less this year and remembered more. The footnotes were better than many novels I read this year. Libraries remain the best recommendation engine ever built.
Rereading a book shows you how much you changed.
Rereading a book shows you how much you changed. I underlined less this year and remembered more.
Keeping a reading log turned a habit into a conversation. A short story can hold a whole life in twenty pages.
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