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The moment one learns English, complications set in. As soon as we have learned to read, we begin, almost inevitably, to read the kind of thing we had already decided to enjoy. The reading of newspapers and popular novels—anything, in short, which has an immediate appeal—goes on at such a pace, and fills the hours so completely, that we have no leisure to feel bored.

Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader (1925)
6d ago

For RPS, I'm really reading everything. Local papers in Montecito and Palm Beach and Nantucket, British tabloids, big papers like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Financial Times. Glossies like Vanity Fair. Newsletters, Substacks, all of it, including Air Mail, The Love List, The Stanza, Feed Me, Trademarked, and whatever else is floating around.

2w ago

It will satisfy you more than the slop that is, supposedly, more entertaining and fun to consume. It will draw you closer to other people, closer to the world. It will disturb your pre-established understanding of the world and offer a subtler, richer, deeper experience of reality.

3w ago

These older books have a sense of integrity. This project was just an opportunity for me to go back to some of my favorite books and look at the ways that's true.

1mo ago

There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement.

2mo ago

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

2mo ago
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My 24 Rules for Reading

I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way. Even more interesting, I gained a powerful but intangible benefit from these tens of thousands of hours devoted to good books.

2mo ago
honest-broker.com
My 24 Rules for Reading

I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. Maybe that sounds absurd when mentioned so baldly. But here's the strange thing: I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way.

2mo ago
honest-broker.com
My 24 Rules for Reading

I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. But here's the strange thing. I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way.

2mo ago
honest-broker.com
My 24 Rules for Reading

I decided at age 13 that I would read books to attain wisdom—and I've kept it up ever since. Maybe that sounds absurd when mentioned so baldly. So go ahead and laugh if you want. But here's the strange thing. I got all those other benefits—job skills, entertainment, etc.—along the way.

2mo ago

Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.

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