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Reading for pleasure

December 7th, 2010 · No Comments · books, writing

Read this book: Our Tragic Universe, by Scarlett Thomas. I’d read a review several months ago that made the book sound like exactly the sort of thing I like reading, so the next time I was at my local bookstore — you have no idea how much I love being able to say “my local [...]

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Thoughts prompted by The Happiness Project

February 12th, 2010 · 5 Comments · books, reviews, writing

Here’s how I found out about Gretchen Rubin’s Happiness Project: I saw that she was following me on the Twitter. I noticed straight away that she’s a real person — I think Twitterers know what I mean, but I define a real person as someone who uses Twitter for honest reasons, by which I mean [...]

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