Tag: reading
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Ways I’m Keeping Myself Sane(ish) in 2017
These aren’t New Year’s resolutions because January first is an arbitrary date and YOU CAN’T CONTROL ME, GREGORIAN CALENDAR! But these are little things I’m doing to make me feel better about how I interact with the world. Take a look, one might be helpful to you. Delete Twitter from my phone. The problem is…
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Thanks for the Books, Mom and Dad
I don’t remember the specifics of the summer (summers?) when my mom took me to the library for the reading program. It was for one of those things where a kid reads some books and earns points or toys or something to encourage reading. I didn’t need the encouragement, but I enjoyed it regardless. Our…
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Tasting Outside Your Genre—of Books and Burgers
Every writer knows they’re supposed to read books from different areas of the bookstore. Wait, no. Every reader knows that, too, or at least has heard the recommendation to read widely. The advice goes something like this: “You write sci-fi/mystery/romance/YA/whatever? Read everything, old and new, in your genre. Then read lots of stuff in other genres.”…
Nathanael Green 