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Final Thoughts on Montaigne
The final passage from Michael Perry’s book, Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy.
Amateurs Amble Through Philosophy
The only thing more fun than reading Montaigne, it seems, is reading what others say about Montaigne.
The Case of the Two-Headed Author | The Smart Set
The feuding duo behind one of America’s greatest (fictional) detectives Source: The Case of the Two-Headed Author | The Smart Set When I was in — 9th grade? — I loved watching Levinson & Link’s TV series Ellery Queen, which starred Jim Hutton as the detective author and David Wayne as his police inspector father. I …
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Mark Forster’s Book Challenge
UK time management coach and author Mark Forster has set himself the challenge to read only one book at a time. Although he is great at starting books, his challenge has been finishing them. He’s used a variant of his Autofocus task management system in the past as a way to read War and Peace. …
Kindle links: Kindle Unlimited, reading experience
The new Kindle Unlimited campaign is smoking out new opinions on Amazon’s strategy [1]. I liked this comparison of the Kindle to the iPod’s early days, and the evolution from buying single songs to streaming music services (Songza is my favorite). The lack of privacy is of concern to the writer, though buying a Kindle …
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Miss Marple
Before we left on our England trip, I loaded up the Kindle with a few hundredweight of e-books thinking, “Oho, eight hours on the flight over, eight hours on the flight back, three weeks of travel — I’ll certainly rip through more than a dozen books!” When I write up my lessons learned from the trip, …
Stevereads on BookTube
Steve Donoghue at Stevereads writes about BookTube, a YouTube community devoted to booklovers. It’s a fun survey of what he loves, dislikes, and questions about the community (why do so many of the vloggers tout Young Adult novels?). But his joy in the community is in their joy at sharing what they love, particularly the contents of their bookshelves …
Review: Elf, a reminder service to avoid overdue library fees
The Durham Country Library — which is a great organization I support with patronage and donations of both books and money — does not notify me when books are either coming due or are overdue. This can be inconvenient when life gets hectic or I forget that the checkout period for DVDs is different from that for books. …
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Current reading
The Relationship Handbook — George Pransky. The focus is primarily spousal relationships, though there are a few chapters dealing with parents and children. The core message is that our insecure thinking lowers our moods, which causes us to act defensively against our partner and they against us. The chief remedies include simply calming down until …
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