reading

Notebook

I finally measured how fast I actually read

The number I'd always assumed for my own reading speed turned out to be off by a wide margin.

Notebook

A page of quotations I keep coming back to, without a theme

No organizing theme, on purpose — just the passages that stayed, copied out roughly as Locke would have wanted.

Reading

A book I clearly did not read at eleven

I could describe the plot in detail. I could not, it turned out, actually tell you what the book was about.

Essays

Rereading is not reading again

The second reading of a book happens between a different reader and a different book than the first one did.