Reading forty books a year, honestly
How many I finish, how many I abandon, and the rule that changed both numbers.
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Reading
Books I keep going back to, and what was still there on the second reading.
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Notes on rereading the same four books
I stopped chasing new titles two years ago. Here is what a decade of rereading gave back instead.
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The walk that fixed the paragraph
Forty minutes rewriting one sentence, then four thousand steps, and the sentence wrote itself.
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The library as a second office
Why I gave up on the perfect home setup and started paying rent in silence instead.
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On borrowed notebooks
Every notebook I own was a gift from someone whose workshop I photographed. I am not sure that is a coincidence.
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What a thatcher reads in the sky
Gwen Trask can tell you what Thursday will do. She has never once looked at a forecast.
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A shelf of books I will not finish
Twenty-two abandoned books, arranged by the reason I stopped. It is a more useful shelf than the other one.
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