How Should One Read a Book? | 
1. I love journals in general, especially book journals.
2. I keep a reading list spreadsheet for stats and a reading journal for details. (I‘m behind with it though.)
3. Brief plot synopsis, my opinion, why I read it.
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"Sometimes the shape of an entire book will be compacted into the memory of a single scene: something simple...." I have memories like this of many books. Sometimes I don't remember anything else, or only have a feeling about a book when I look at it on my shelf, and that's it. I wonder why that is.
pick#Readathon book #2 done! A beautiful edition of Woolf's lecture/essay with an introduction and afterword by Sheila Heti. Woolf's writing is full of her typical nuggets of wisdom and unearthly beautiful writing. I liked Heti's afterward "Other Readers," where she writes about the importance of early readers/friends of her work. It had hardly any explicit connection to Woolf; the intro, which did, felt convulated and didn't add anything to for me.
Had to take a break from the #Readathon to go get some burgers and chocolate milkshakes for lunch and then vote! Fit in a little reading while waiting for our food: Jorge read some of the tagged book aloud to me. Virginia Woolf sounds great read aloud, probably this especially as it was originally a lecture.
pickThis essay by Virginia Woolf is being reissued as a stand-alone next month with an introduction and afterward by Sheila Heti. I definitely recommend this short read if you are (like me) a fan of reading about the act of reading. #netgalley #arc
pickBook 128 of 2020
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I absolutely loved this short essay written in 1926. It read as if it was written in modern times and it was full of wisdom!
