The Reading Life Most book clubs fizzle within a few months. The ones that endure get a handful of unglamorous things right — mostly about books, structure, and people. Book clubs are founded with enormous enthusiasm and die with quiet regularity. The pattern is almost a cliché: a group of friends or acquaintances, excited … Read more
The Reading Life With millions of books a tap away, the hardest part of reading is often just deciding what to read — and the deciding can quietly eat the reading. Here is a small, modern absurdity that many readers know well. You finish a book, feel that pleasant sense of accomplishment, and go to … Read more
The Reading Life The reading habits that last aren’t built on willpower or free time. They’re built on triggers, tiny minimums, and a plan for the days everything falls apart. Nearly everyone who wishes they read more has, at some point, resolved to do it — declared a goal, maybe joined a challenge, read … Read more
The Reading Life The half-read pile isn’t a character flaw. It’s usually a few fixable problems wearing the disguise of one big personal failing. Look at the nightstand, the shelf, the e-reader, and there they are: the books you started with real enthusiasm and never finished. A bookmark frozen at page eighty. A novel you … Read more