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I’ve been talking with a couple friends of mine about reading speed a lot. My friend Ani has been working on this side project, readfa.st (I have no idea if it’s supposed to be readfa.st or read fast or Read Fast or readfast or what, I’m sure he/they will figure it out eventually). As such [...]

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I’ve been reading through David Foster Wallace’s (wiki, fan site) book of collected essays Consider the Lobster (wiki) and am currently in the middle of the essay “Certainly the End of Something or Other, One Would Sort of Have to Think” re John Updike’s “Toward the End of Time”. I haven’t read any Updike but [...]

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I was browsing through somebody else’s bookshelf when I noticed one authored by Miranda July, titled No one belongs here more than you. (book site, amazon). I asked if it was the same Miranda July (wiki) who made that one movie I liked a lot, and then struggled to remember the name. She flipped open [...]

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“As writer John Seabrook put it, “This may be the most depressing thing about the casual movement: no clothing is casual anymore.” In general, I’d say [tag]The Paradox of Choice[/tag]: Why More is Less by Barry Schwarz has been a very interesting read. It addresses all sorts of things related to how we have lots [...]

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Lately I’ve been doing a bit of [tag]reading[/tag], much of it non-fiction. The latest book I’ve finished is Charles Wheelan’s [tag]Naked Economics[/tag]. I don’t know what prompted me to pick it up in the bookstore a few weeks ago, much less seek it out in the public library here to finish it. Perhaps I am [...]

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