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74 Microlog entries tagged with ‘reading’
What Can We Learn From Diagramming Sentences?
I’m posting this here mostly because the concept of diagramming sentences completely eludes me; I never did anything like this at school and I don’t know anyone who has (or maybe I do). Permalink ·
1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive list
Filing this for future reference. Permalink ·
Stop Lying About What You Do
“I read with continuous partial attention and I don’t care that I am frequently interrupting my own reading. I despise the discourse that says we are all shallow, that we are all flighty, distracted, not paying attention. I am paying attention, but I am paying attention to everything, and even if my knowledge is fragmented and hard to synthesise it is wider, and it plays in a vaster sphere, than any knowledge that has gone before.” Permalink ·
‘What I Really Want Is Someone Rolling Around in the Text’
On the future of marginalia in the age of the e-reader. I’m of the opinion that e-books make things easier, especially for people like me who can’t/won’t write in their books. I’d never highlight passages or scribble notes in a physical copy, but I’d happy do it all day with an e-book (I did it a lot while reading Moneyball). Permalink ·
Falling out of love with Murakami
I love Murakami, and I don’t care about the clichés (the enigmatic women, the jazz, the pasta), nor that his stories are one-off experiences (as I never re-read books anyway). Permalink ·
Kottke on the origins of Green Eggs and Ham
I had no idea. Permalink ·
The Penguin Blog
Stop the presses! Publishing house catches on to blogging malarkey! But seriously, it’s a very good thing that such a company has seen fit to put a more human face on what are normally quite anonymous operations. It might even stoke some sort of qualitative loyalty for the imprint, akin to that enjoyed by independent record labels. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part. Permalink ·
From a list of new Library of Congress subject headings that received Dewey Decimal numbers last year
I’m not a professional cataloguer (though I could have been) but shouldn’t the last one be ‘Video games—wrestling’? Permalink ·
Barbelith discusses book format and readability
Myself? I hate paperbacks with shitty-quality paper and type that’s too small, but I also find hardbacks unwieldy and far too expensive. And I only wish I had the space for trade paperbacks. Oy. (See also: Literary Novels Going Straight to Paperback; related Metafilter thread.) Permalink ·
Hello, would you like a free book?
Yes I would, thank you very much. And if I didn’t already have three of them, I would’ve taken at least five. Reading isn’t just a ‘women’s thing’, despite McEwan’s little social experiment. Permalink ·
Reflections in the Evening Land
“The celebrated critic Harold Bloom, despairing of contemporary America, turns to his bookshelves to understand the trajectory of his country.” Permalink ·
Suck.com, Gone for Good?
Important and influential website disappears from the web. But sad story takes positive spin when important and influential bloggers rally to save it. I love the internets. Permalink ·
“I am inclined to think of late that as much depends on the state of the bowels as of the stars. As are your bowels, so are the stars.”
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Verbatim: The Language Quarterly
I found this at least a year ago but never linked at the time. Well worth a download. Permalink ·
Design Engaged book list
I shouldn’t really post this. I have enough books to read as it is [c/o del.icio.us/thoughtwax]. Permalink ·
“An almanac of Complete World Knowledge compiled with instructive annotation and arranged in useful order by me, John Hodgman, a professional writer, in The Areas Of My Expertise”
I’ve subsequently seen the man on The Daily Show, and it makes me want his book even more. Permalink ·
Short Guardian profile on Paul Auster
Probably best not to read this if you don’t know the ending of The Music of Chance. Which I didn’t until I read this. Thanks a lot. Permalink ·
McSweeney’s has a new online store
But international postage is still an unbelievable 18 dollars for an 8-dollar magazine. Seriously, what’s up with that? Permalink ·
Little White Lies
A new magazine about movies, or rather the thoughts and conversations they inspire. Looks interesting. Permalink ·
The Funny Pages [c/o kottke.org]
The NYT cashes in on the vogue for literary comics with their new section. But it’s a good thing. Permalink ·
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