Do you track your reading habits? "Like the things we eat or the ways we move our bodies, the books we consume get talked about as yet another avenue for self-improvement," writes Tajja Isen for The Walrus. Here's her story about the problem with reading lists, and a way to make them useful and even lead to more enjoyment. Tell us in the comments what you think — and if you track, why.

https://flip.it/AEiSjN

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We turn to knots to find luck, profess undying love, symbolize marriage, and make epic art. If all else fails, we can resort to witchery. Kanya Kanchana invites us down the rabbit hole with six stories on our fascination with knots.

https://longreads.com/2025/01/07/knotty-business-a-delightfully-tangled-reading-list-on-knots/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Multnomah County Library: Indigenous Voices for High Schoolers
Explore compelling fiction and nonfiction from Native American, First Nations, and Indigenous authors. Perfect for high schoolers!
https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/list/share/135258471_multcolib_teens/1941270819_indigenous_voices_for_high_schoolers_from_multcolib_teens

"The colors we see change based on evolution, our genes, our age, our brains, our eyes, the nature and wavelength of light, the seasons, the languages we speak, the cultures we are born into and raised in, the proximity of other colors, the way we observe, and even the high-stakes decisions of the color industry." In our latest reading list, Kanya Kanchana dives deep into our love of color.

https://longreads.com/2024/10/15/in-living-color-a-prismatic-reading-list-on-pigment-paint-and-perception/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

This is one of the best 'best of' lists of science fiction books I've seen. It does a pretty good job of balancing more recent books with older 'classics', and makes some good guesses as to which contemporary books will stand the test of time. While everyone will find a favorite author or two missing from Esquire's list (Ken Macleod and Joanna Russ for me), pretty much everything on the list is worth reading.

#ScienceFiction #ReadingLists #BestOfLists

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-sci-fi-books/

Found this way deep in my YouTube "Watch Later" collection. It's a really nice guide to getting started with Charles Dickens including a recommended order for select books from Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. It is inspiring to see someone so passionate about their subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aryB10D04jw

Might add these to my 2024 Reading List!

#Books #Bookstodon #CharlesDickens #RobertDouglasFairhurst #PenguinClassics #Literature #BritishLiterature #Victorian #VictorianBritain #ReadingLists @bookstodon

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Need to start checking out a reread of #Meditations , I think it'll be good as I try to make my way through the next few weeks.

Anyone have any good #work related reads from #psychology to #technology to #magic (the Houdini sort)?

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Have you explored the new #EighteenthCenturyPoetryArchive corpus builder yet? It allows you to quickly create and share collections of poems, editions, or lists of authors with a single link!

https://www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/resources/corpusbuilder.shtml

I was getting to ready to read The Poverty of Philosophy but realized I have not read The Philosophy of Poverty. Which got me thinking I need to read a lot more anarchist writings and theory. So I'm going to go ahead and ask for any reading recommendations of the anarchist persuasion. Thanks! #Goldbricking #Anarchy #Anarchism #Theory #ReadingLists #ReadingSuggestion

Great list! Read several of the fiction titles in this list #endofyear #readinglists

https://www.newyorker.com/best-books-2022