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Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingsolver

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Flight Behavior | Barbara Kingsolver

It took me a little while to get going on this one, but I've hit my stride about a hundred pages in.

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar | Cheryl Strayed

It's so satisfying to watch my bookmark move from cover to cover.

Erin7 Yet another reason to like a paper book over ebooks😊. 7y

Elizabeth8 Agreed! I get the appeal of e-readers, but little things like this are why I've never been able to make the switch. 7y

Erin7 Mine just came in today. I hope to start it in the next couple of days. 7y

Elizabeth8 @Erin7 It was a good one, I think. Nice pick! 7y

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Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar | Cheryl Strayed

the on-deck circle

Erin7 I‘ll be reading #TheAlienist in February too. I‘m really looking forward to Not after all the hype it‘s gotten. (edited) 7y

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Leisure Reading Habits: A Survey of the Leisure Reading Habits of Canadian Adults with Some International Comparisons | Kenneth F. Watson

1. The yellow chair by the front window
2. I grab whatever happens to be lying around.
3. I try to find a stopping point.
4. Sometimes
5. Never
6. One at a time
7. Anywhere that's quiet
8. Silently
9. Reading ahead makes me feel like I'm missing stuff.
10. I don't intentionally do either, but the way I hold a book doesn't tend to break the spine.
11. Only in the good ones. I like to have a pencil handy for underlining and writing in the margins.

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Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays | David Foster Wallace

I might have gotten a little carried away with the filters on this post, but I love this essay so much I couldn't stop myself.

Erin7 I like this quote. It feels relatable to other things also to include art. Essentially isn‘t that was real focus is?...this ability to let go of all the chatter in our mind and concentrate on the task at hand. It is part of what brings about the love of the game for the player or the love of the act of painting for the artist. In my view it‘s like a sort of meditation to tune all the noise out you know. (edited) 7y

Elizabeth8 Very true! I think the same can be said of running. There's the initial discomfort and mental complaining, but if I can get myself past that, it's like a switch gets flipped. I don't enjoy running, but I appreciate the quiet, meditative moments it offers. 7y

Hugheslifts As an athlete, I can testify to this. I am a wrestler and jiujitsu player. When I step onto the mat, I‘m intensely and uncomfortably cognizant of the crowd, of my gi, of my singlet, of my fear that I‘ll fail to live up to my expectations. Then the whistle blows or the hand held aloft by the referee falls and so the the world. It‘s fades into nothingness and my mind turns everything off but the muscle memory developed for this singular event. 7y

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