A recommendation fails more often than it works, and the reason is usually that the request described the wrong thing. What people ask for versus what predicts a match Asking by genre is close to useless. Two novels in…
Switched mostly to audiobooks about a year ago because of a long commute. My count has roughly doubled. Two things bother me. First, I retain noticeably less I can tell you a book was good and struggle to say what was…
I have read a fair stack of the popular improvement books, enjoyed most of them, and can point to precisely nothing in my week that is different because of one. I am not looking for the best book, I am looking for one…
Those two I finished in a weekend each and thought about for months afterwards. Cloud Atlas I put down at page 80 and never picked back up, and I cannot work out whether that is the nested structure, the voice…
I read in bed, propped on a pillow, usually starting around 10:30pm. Within ten or fifteen minutes I am rereading the same paragraph and then I am gone. This has been going on for about two years, and I have four books…
Three weeks of travel, a lot of it on trains and in places with no signal, and I am carrying one small bag so weight matters. I read maybe an hour a day normally but on trips it goes up to three or four. The appeal of a…
Realistically five nights a week, 25 minutes each, in bed, and I lose the thread between sessions on anything with more than about four named characters. I have abandoned three 600 page novels this year and finished…
I am a software developer, comfortable with code, and I keep failing to get through statistics books. I get through descriptive stats and probability basics, then hit a wall somewhere around hypothesis testing where it…
She will read a 200 page graphic novel in two days and reread it four times. Give her a chapter book of the same length and she gets three chapters in and drifts away, even when she picked it herself. Her teacher has…
I have reread the same three novels probably fifteen times between them over the last four years. I have a shelf of unread books I bought with genuine enthusiasm and I keep going back to the familiar ones instead,…