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read this if you have a huge pile of books
Let’s talk about the elephant in the room. You know what elephant. That huge pile of books you have there and you don’t even know where to start.
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july is here
— July is here, the kids have winter break at school, I’m working from home, so we may spend some time in the country for a few days. And it’s inevitable, my brain starts thinking of lists for everything. So, let me share that with you. ▶︎ READING This month, for #BeardyReads, we decided to read REBECCA by Daphne Du Maurier. But first, we chose a genre for our month: classic thriller. And those in the group who already read REBECCA chose to read the other runner-ups: THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, by Patricia Highsmith, and WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE, by Shirley Jackson. I’m reading all three. But…
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on bibliotherapy and books as remedies for life’s ailments
Bibliotherapy can cure almost everything. A broken heart, a broken mind, or even a broken leg.
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imagine you’re cleaning a room
Imagine you’re cleaning a room, and you kill a cockroach with the door of a wardrobe… What would you do next? (A) keep cleaning the room?, or (B) think about your reason to exist? Or do both things belong to the same process readingthisweek Back to my Brazilian Literature project, I just started reading A PAIXÃO SEGUNDO G.H. (“The Passion According to G.H.”), by Clarice Lispector. Written in a very difficult moment for Clarice, the book is the monologue of a woman simply identified by G.H. drawn in an existential crisis after a random episode in her life. It all starts when G.H. decides to clean her maid’s room in…
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here’s some reading science in a dancing metaphor
There’s a small central pit of closely packed cones in the back of our eyes near the center of the retina. It’s called “fovea”, and it’s responsible for the sharp central vision (or the “foveal vision”). When you fixate your gaze on a single point, the thing you see most clearly and sharp is what you see with your foveal vision. Whatever is outside, a bit blurred perhaps, but still visible and somehow readable is called “peripheral vision”. Both foveal and peripheral visions are essential for many human skills, specially reading. But you know what? When we read, those visions work together more like dancers in between special movements of…
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Currently Reading: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
What are you reading this week? And how do you feel about it so far?
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read this if you want to build a better reading habit
You read more than you think. You’re reading this, for example. You read signs in the street while you’re driving, you read subtitles in movies and series. And you read e-mails all day if you’re doomed with modern life enough. But listen… With all these slack uses of daily reading, it’s a bit odd, but you find it hard to sit and read a book, don’t you? And you might be right. You do those kinds of reading every day because it’s part of your automated life. Maybe reading a book is not. It’s not in your planned schedule, so you treat it more like a thing you COULD do…
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what’s going on with our concentration these days?
You read a few lines of a book and then you just stop and your mind wanders. You can’t focus. Do you know why? Why can the simplest act of reading be so difficult when it’s actually supposed to make you forget the very things that are preventing you from concentrating? It always keeps me thinking… specially because reading should IMPROVE concentration. Well, I don’t know why that happens but I know a few things we can do to work it out. ■ TURN THE PHONE OFF You phone will keep buzzing, and you know that. You start itching to see what it is. A message? A notification of an…
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books are mirrors
What part of you do you leave in your book reviews?
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read between the lines
Read between the lines, and maybe reading will become a completely different experience for you. Just try.
