The Quiet Rewards of Reading a Book Twice
Most readers treat a book as a one-way journey. You begin on the first page, move steadily toward the last, close the cover, and file …
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Arranging a Home Library You Will Actually Return To
Buying books is easy. Living with them well is harder. Anyone who reads seriously for a decade or two ends up with more volumes than …
Reading Several Books at Once Without Losing the Thread
There is a widely repeated piece of reading advice that sounds like common sense: finish one book before you start another. Reading several at once, …
Learning to Say What a Book Did to You
You close a book, sit with it for a moment, and feel that something has happened to you. Then a friend asks what it was …