Reading notes, book reviews and the reading life. What I am reading, what stayed with me and why.
Choosing what to read next is upstream of every other reading decision and almost nobody has a method for it. Why the default approach fails, the question that works better, and the list problem that turns good intentions into guilt.
I abandon most books I start, and it made me read more rather than less. The case for the fifty-page rule, the three exceptions worth making, and the one argument against it I have never been able to answer.