Good translation is invisible until you compare two of them. Rereading a book shows you how much you changed. I underlined less this year and remembered more.
Getting started
The footnotes were better than many novels I read this year. A short story can hold a whole life in twenty pages. Good translation is invisible until you compare two of them. Some books are best read in one sitting; others need a month and a pencil.
Libraries remain the best recommendation engine ever built. Poetry rewards reading aloud, even to an empty room.
What worked
Libraries remain the best recommendation engine ever built. Keeping a reading log turned a habit into a conversation. Every great book quietly argues with an older one.
- Keep a reading log
- Reread a favourite each year
- Read one old book for every new one
- Write three lines after each chapter
The footnotes were better than many novels I read this year. Abandoning a book is allowed and sometimes wise.
What didn’t
Good translation is invisible until you compare two of them. The author never explains the ending, and that is generous. Every great book quietly argues with an older one. Libraries remain the best recommendation engine ever built.
Poetry rewards reading aloud, even to an empty room. Some books are best read in one sitting; others need a month and a pencil.
Libraries remain the best recommendation engine ever built. Reading before bed works best on paper and badly on a phone.
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