#READ

Peter Mommsen

PeterMommsen

C.S. Lewis weighs in: "There is a strange idea that in every subject the ancient books should be read only by the professionals, and that the amateur should content himself

Ben Diskin

BenjaminDiskin

One of the weirdest things about the human experience is that if 99 people say something nice about you and 1 person says something mean, you'll likely wind up laser

Sister Outrider

ClaireShrugged

At the start of the year I set the intention that all books I read for fun would be written by women of colour. I failed. But decolonising the mind

Karan Mahajan

kmahaj

the cozy rashomon-lite feeling of sitting down to read the 6th review of a book you will never read. is this the closest we get, textually, in modern times, to

kath🌻read Go south

illuia

Just because I feel like it, here's some things that have helped me stick to new year's resolutions in the past (or... Any goals/changes cause that's really all it is,

Monica Beletsky

MonicaBeletsky

I could be wrong about this. If I am, feel free to comment with examples to the contrary. It is very difficult for a reader to invest or care about

Livi⁷ | yoongi baby ♡

pocketdiminie

So I saw a tweet recently with that fic reader revoke card crap where someone said if you read fics you have to read books or you're missing something and

Rebecca Romney

rebeccaromney

A collector looks at every book as a historical artifact. Each tells a different story. The cheap wartime paper of that 1944 copy of the Great Gatsby, fairy tales inscribed

mesopotamian speech and debate club 𒌵𒆠

protosemite

Let’s not waste time and jump into the first line. B - the first sign here is šum followed by ma, giving us šum-maP - three signs, here aš-ša-, and

Dr Anton Howes

antonhowes

I’m not a philosopher, but one line struck me: that academics are pressured to write for publication, not to be *read*. Since leaving an academic post last year, I’ve done

Tressie McMillan Cottom

tressiemcphd

I have a 3/4 baked argument about what’s going on with these “a nation/family divided” stories. Maybe I should jot it down quickly. Tl;dr is you were always going to

Anita Sarkeesian

anitasarkeesian

Would like some very good female authored sci-fi/genre book recommendations please. My fav authors are @rkirstein, @charliejane, @ClaireNorth42, @KameronHurley, and @nkjemisin. Recommend accordingly! I read so much fiction in 2020

Liana Brooks

LianaBrooks

Super casual and friendly reminder that if you are writing about a culture you don't belong to you need to do your research. Start with, "Is this my story to

Jasmine Lane 🐢🐘

MsJasmineMN

Thinking about my last blog post still. I’ve seen how over emphasis of a critical lens interpretation can ruin a book. A professor of mine essentially called Native Son communist

Emily L. Hauser אלה אסתר

emilylhauser

The patriarchy is always easy to enforce.https://twitter.com/karianneholt/status/1291055643198140422 Imagine if we restricted gun access as passionately as we restrict abortion access. Imagine if we read police reports as skeptically as we

Brett McGurk

brett_mcgurk

New WH explanation is absurd and alarming. PDB briefer didn’t READ the report on bounties to Trump. So he wasn’t “briefed” even though it was in the brief. Meanwhile, the

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